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Dick Platkin lives in the Miracle Mile area and writes the weekly Planning Watch column for CityWatch. Please send any questions or... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21146-homelessness-now-kills-more-angelenos-than-homicide-options-to-address-the-housing-emergency - Type: Article - Author: Brad S. Kane and Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Big Bamboozle #2 – How LA Hopes to Extend a Real Estate Boom and Hold off its Eventual Bust](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21098-big-bamboozle-2-how-la-hopes-to-extend-a-real-estate-boom-and-hold-off-its-eventual-bust) January 21 2021 that reveals the social consequences of hijacking the form, but not the substance, of the official planning process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21098-big-bamboozle-2-how-la-hopes-to-extend-a-real-estate-boom-and-hold-off-its-eventual-bust - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Another Big Bamboozle – the New 2021-2029 Los Angeles Housing Element?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21055-another-big-bamboozle-the-new-2021-2029-los-angeles-housing-element) January 14 2021 bamboozle, please read these two studies and then share their findings and your conclusions with elected officials. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21055-another-big-bamboozle-the-new-2021-2029-los-angeles-housing-element - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Bound to Fail: Pawning off Urban Reaganomics as ‘Progressive’ Housing Policy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21008-bound-to-fail-pawning-off-urban-reaganomics-as-progressive-housing-policy) January 07 2021 PLANNING WATCH-Whether you call it Reaganomics, neo-liberalism, trickle-down or supply-side economics, privatization, or deregulation, failure is certain. As I have argued in previous Planning Watch columns, urban Reaganomics will not solve the current... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21008-bound-to-fail-pawning-off-urban-reaganomics-as-progressive-housing-policy - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [The Failed Logic of Planning in Los Angeles: Full Speed Into the Rocks](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20977-the-failed-logic-of-planning-in-los-angeles-full-speed-into-the-rocks) December 30 2020 do not add up, none of this should be surprising, especially to those charged with planning the future of Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20977-the-failed-logic-of-planning-in-los-angeles-full-speed-into-the-rocks - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [As DONE Destructs, Their Incompetence Breeds Dysfunction in Lincoln Heights, Along with a Bright Spot](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20936-as-done-destructs-their-incompetence-breeds-dysfunction-in-lincoln-heights-along-with-a-bright-spot) December 17 2020 Committee). He can be reached at rwlarsen.lapa@gmail.com. PS -- I have it on good authority that my CityWatch colleague Dick Platkin, is also a founding member. This could be exciting! (Tony Butka is an Eastside community activist, who has served on a... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20936-as-done-destructs-their-incompetence-breeds-dysfunction-in-lincoln-heights-along-with-a-bright-spot - Type: Article - Author: Tony Butka - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20934-the-fair-la-housing-plan-allows-real-estate-speculators-to-profit-from-the-housing-crisis-it-s-sophisticated-nonsense) December 17 2020 decline, the more the housing crisis will grow, and the more the LA’s infrastructure and public services will crumble. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20934-the-fair-la-housing-plan-allows-real-estate-speculators-to-profit-from-the-housing-crisis-it-s-sophisticated-nonsense - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Want to Finally Do Something about Homelessness? Let’s End Phony Solutions](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20895-want-to-finally-do-something-about-homelessness-let-s-end-phony-solutions) December 10 2020 as normal. This is the time to pursue policies, such as those outlined above, that could make a real difference. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20895-want-to-finally-do-something-about-homelessness-let-s-end-phony-solutions - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Will Joe Biden Become the Climate Change President? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20855-will-joe-biden-become-the-climate-change-president-don-t-get-your-hopes-up) December 03 2020 PLANNING WATCH-Because Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for making the climate crisis worse, many pro-Biden pundits believed that Biden’s victory over Trump means the United States government will now take the climate crisis seriously. They... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20855-will-joe-biden-become-the-climate-change-president-don-t-get-your-hopes-up - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [When It Comes to Its Urban Forest, Los Angeles is Not a Nanny State](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20808-when-it-comes-to-its-urban-forest-los-angeles-is-not-a-nanny-state) November 25 2020 PLANNING WATCH--Even though Los Angeles has a nearly perfect climate, fall is best time to plant new trees and save LA’s existing trees. Trees, after all, are nature’s way to combat the climate crisis by cooling heat islands and sequestering rapidly... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20808-when-it-comes-to-its-urban-forest-los-angeles-is-not-a-nanny-state - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Updating the Hollywood Community Plan - Tragedy in 2012 and Farce in 2020](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20776-updating-the-hollywood-community-plan-tragedy-in-2012-and-farce-in-2020) November 19 2020 PLANNING WATCH-If you forgot that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and the second time as farce, you only need to look at City Hall’s repeated efforts to update the Hollywood Community Plan. Despite two decades of updating, Superior Court Judge... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20776-updating-the-hollywood-community-plan-tragedy-in-2012-and-farce-in-2020 - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Litmus Tests to Smoke Out Sham City Hall Remedies to the Housing Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20741-litmus-tests-to-smoke-out-sham-city-hall-remedies-to-the-housing-crisis) November 12 2020 the many alternative housing programs I described above, then please share your evidence with CityWatch’s readers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20741-litmus-tests-to-smoke-out-sham-city-hall-remedies-to-the-housing-crisis - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [George W. Bush’s Political Insights Also Apply to “Progressives” in Pale Blue Los Angeles](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20699-george-w-bush-s-political-insights-also-apply-to-progressives-in-pale-blue-los-angeles) November 05 2020 homeless encampments next to new luxury apartments facilitated by zoning deregulation indicates it is nearing its end. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20699-george-w-bush-s-political-insights-also-apply-to-progressives-in-pale-blue-los-angeles - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [How Business-as-Usual Triumphs at LA’s City Hall](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20620-how-business-as-usual-triumphs-at-la-s-city-hall) October 22 2020 their “progressive” solution to homelessness? While all scams eventually run their course, this one is still working. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20620-how-business-as-usual-triumphs-at-la-s-city-hall - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Former Officials Pitch Proposals to Stop City Hall Corruption in LA](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20581-former-officials-pitch-proposals-to-stop-city-hall-corruption-in-la) October 15 2020 while intensively lobbying for the restoration of public housing programs and the elimination of economic inequality. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20581-former-officials-pitch-proposals-to-stop-city-hall-corruption-in-la - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Why LA Has Stopped Voting!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20546-why-la-has-stopped-voting) October 08 2020 scenario for a city with old infrastructure bracing itself for catastrophic climate change and certain earthquakes. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20546-why-la-has-stopped-voting - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Lincoln Heights Avenue 34 Project – Bad Planning Work and a Whiff of Jose Huizar](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20522-lincoln-heights-avenue-34-project-bad-planning-work-and-a-whiff-of-jose-huizar) October 05 2020 Angeles” specials. The Takeaway I don’t pretend to be a Planning Department maven. I leave that to CityWatch colleague Dick Platkin, who spent his career as an LA City Planner. But I must echo his conclusion that the LA City Planning process is broken.... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20522-lincoln-heights-avenue-34-project-bad-planning-work-and-a-whiff-of-jose-huizar - Type: Article - Author: Tony Butka - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [LA’s City Hall Could Write the Book on Inept Governance](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20505-la-s-city-hall-could-write-the-book-on-inept-governance) October 01 2020 fuel companies, health insurance corporations, military and police contractors, and Wall Street in your backyard. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20505-la-s-city-hall-could-write-the-book-on-inept-governance - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [The California Cargo Cult Shilling for Real Estate Speculators](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20465-the-california-cargo-cult-shilling-for-real-estate-speculators) September 24 2020 world, facts and analysis do not cloud your thinking, especially when generous real estate developers subsidize you. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20465-the-california-cargo-cult-shilling-for-real-estate-speculators - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [The Gentrification Monster Wants to Eat Lincoln Heights - A Toxic Avenue 34 Project](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20463-the-gentrification-monster-wants-to-eat-lincoln-heights-a-toxic-avenue-34-project) September 24 2020 Think deliberate displacement of the largely Latino and Asian residents. Thanks a bunch, CD 1. My Citywatch colleague Dick Platkin, himself a former City Planner, demolished the horsepuckey behind Transit Oriented Communities in an excellent article:... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20463-the-gentrification-monster-wants-to-eat-lincoln-heights-a-toxic-avenue-34-project - Type: Article - Author: Tony Butka - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - [Start](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin "Start") - [Prev](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=240 "Prev") - [9](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=160 "9") - [10](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=180 "10") - [11](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=200 "11") - [12](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=220 "12") - [13](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=240 "13") - 14 - [15](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=280 "15") - [16](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=300 "16") - [17](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=320 "17") - [18](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=340 "18") - [Next](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=280 "Next") - [End](https://mail.citywatchla.com/search?q=dick%20platkin&start=580 "End") Results **261** - **280** of **588**