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### [Missing Middle. LA City Planning’s New Approach to “Attainable” Housing](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33250:missing-middle-la-city-plannings-new-approach-to-attainable-housing&catid=429)

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#  NEIGHBORHOOD

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### Venice: One Step Forward, Two (or Three) Steps Back

Written by Marian Crostic and Elaine Spierer on May 01 2017.

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## [15 Years of LA Neighborhood Councils … No Longer an ‘Experiment’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13118:15-years-of-la-neighborhood-councils-no-longer-an-experiment&catid=327)

15 CANDLES--Fifteen years ago, more or less, the first neighborhood councils in Los Angeles opened for business. I was there at the beginning as chai…

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Written by Adrienne Nicole Edwards on April 24 2017.

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Written by Adrienne Nicole Edwards on April 20 2017.

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Written by Christian L. Guzman on April 17 2017.

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Written by Adrienne Nicole Edwards on April 10 2017.

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Written by Adrienne Nicole Edwards on April 03 2017.

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Written by Emily Merz on April 03 2017.

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Written by Adrienne Edwards & Brigette Kidd on March 30 2017.

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Written by Steve Scauzillo on March 30 2017.

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Written by Amie Shepard on March 27 2017.

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Written by Ed Folvin on March 27 2017.

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Written by SayNoHOPZ on March 23 2017.

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Written by Ethan Varian on March 20 2017.

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Written by Adrienne Nicole Edwards on March 20 2017.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on March 13 2017.

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Written by Patricia Lombard on March 11 2017.

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