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He welcomes comments and... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12077-jaw-jaw-jaw-about-los-angeles-initiative-jjj - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Real Planning in Los Angeles: Nothing more than a rickety ‘Development Process’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12038-real-planning-in-los-angeles-nothing-more-than-a-rickety-development-process) October 27 2016 forces substituting for the planning process is finally coming to an end, and you can lend a hand to make it happen. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please submit any comments or... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12038-real-planning-in-los-angeles-nothing-more-than-a-rickety-development-process - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Municipal Deregulation = Inequality! Here’s How.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11996-municipal-deregulation-inequality-here-s-how) October 20 2016 unsafe buildings, traffic congestion, sound and air pollution, and esthetically grim corridors and centers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please submit any comments or corrections... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11996-municipal-deregulation-inequality-here-s-how - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Don’t Hold Your Breath for an Urban New Deal from a Clinton (or Trump) Administration](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11955-don-t-hold-your-breath-for-an-urban-new-deal-from-a-clinton-or-trump-administration) October 13 2016 to properly plan, including rigorous criteria for the approval of any deviations from legally adopted plans and zones. (Dick Platkin is a veteran city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He also serves on the boards of the... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11955-don-t-hold-your-breath-for-an-urban-new-deal-from-a-clinton-or-trump-administration - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Fact Checking ‘News’ Articles that Shill for Real Estate Speculation in LA](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11915-fact-checking-news-articles-that-shill-for-real-estate-speculation-in-la) October 06 2016 handy, and if you encounter any more info-journalism promoting mega-projects that you want debunked, my email is below. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please submit any comments or... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11915-fact-checking-news-articles-that-shill-for-real-estate-speculation-in-la - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Gridlock: Not New to LA](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11876-gridlock-not-new-to-la) September 29 2016 before the City’s infrastructure and service systems are substantially upgraded, we perpetuate LA’s endless gridlock. (Dick Platkin is a veteran city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He also serves on the boards of the Beverly... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11876-gridlock-not-new-to-la - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Ignorance is Bliss: Everybody Talks about Development, Few Know What It Is](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11840-ignorance-is-bliss-everybody-talks-about-development-few-know-what-it-is) September 22 2016 dust during and after the Vietnam War. The money is undoubtedly there, and our elected officials need to tap into it. (Dick Platkin reports on local city planning issues for CityWatch. He is a veteran city planner and welcomes comments and corrections... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11840-ignorance-is-bliss-everybody-talks-about-development-few-know-what-it-is - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Welcome to LA, Where Real Estate Speculation meets Squeaky Wheel Planning](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11814-welcome-to-la-where-real-estate-speculation-meets-squeaky-wheel-planning) September 15 2016 of their residents and customers. Clearly, this old wine is not fit to drink, even if it is packaged in new bottles. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on planning issues for City Watch. He also consults, teaches planning courses, and... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11814-welcome-to-la-where-real-estate-speculation-meets-squeaky-wheel-planning - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [How to Empower the Citizenry: Try a Little Respect!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11785-how-to-empower-the-citizenry-try-a-little-respect) September 12 2016 bankruptcy will help them, us, and our children...how? 2) As fellow CityWatch contributor and Planner-Extraordinaire Dick Platkin recently opined, there are a few darned good reasons why we need a Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, and legal efforts,... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11785-how-to-empower-the-citizenry-try-a-little-respect - Type: Article - Author: Ken Alpern - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Editor’s Memo: Flip-Flopper-in-Chief](https://mail.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11776-editor-s-memo-flip-flopper-in-chief) September 08 2016 Empowerment. You would think by now that Los Angeles would have some pretty powerful neighborhoods. Former city planner Dick Platkin reminds us that there’s considerable difference between empowerment and power. No vote, no power, he says. LA has... https://mail.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11776-editor-s-memo-flip-flopper-in-chief - Type: Article - Author: Ken Draper - Category: WORLD WATCH - Language: \* - ### [If You Have Power, You Don’t Need ‘Empowerment’](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11766-if-you-have-power-you-don-t-need-empowerment) September 08 2016 of mass protests. It is rare in land use cases, but these Angelinos showed that it can be done and that it can work. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on planning issues for City Watch. He also consults, teaches planning courses, and... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11766-if-you-have-power-you-don-t-need-empowerment - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Cooking Up Fake Support: How Big Real Estate Manufactures Consent](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11729-cooking-up-fake-support-how-big-real-estate-manufactures-consent) September 01 2016 out parcel-level approvals for Big Real Estate projects that conflict with zoning laws and with the General Plan. (Dick Platkin is a veteran city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatch, and he welcomes comments and questions at... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11729-cooking-up-fake-support-how-big-real-estate-manufactures-consent - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Same Old Same Old: Proposed La Cienega Luxury High-rise is Oblivious to it Surroundings](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11701-same-old-same-old-proposed-la-cienega-luxury-high-rise-is-oblivious-to-it-surroundings) August 25 2016 pull that allows them to usually get what they want, our response should be, “Build to code or don’t build at all.” (Dick Platkin is a veteran city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatch, and he welcomes comments and questions at... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11701-same-old-same-old-proposed-la-cienega-luxury-high-rise-is-oblivious-to-it-surroundings - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Editor’s Memo: In the Eye of the Beholder](https://mail.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11689-editor-s-memo-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder) August 25 2016 CITYWATCH TODAY—Rick Caruso and Dick Platkin disagree. Caruso is a builder. He conceived and built the popular Grove and at the time there were those who thought his vision was a mismatch for the neighborhood. Adjacent to the Original Farmer’s Market... https://mail.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11689-editor-s-memo-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder - Type: Article - Author: Ken Draper - Category: WORLD WATCH - Language: \* - ### [Mayor Garcetti Pressed to End Overdevelopment … Leonardo DiCaprio Backs Neighborhood Integrity Initiative](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11658-mayor-garcetti-pressed-to-end-overdevelopment-leonardo-dicaprio-backs-neighborhood-integrity-initiative) August 18 2016 board, UN4LA, Hollywood Joaquin Phoenix, award-winning actor and activist Chris Pine, award-winning actor and activist Dick Platkin, former Los Angeles city planner; and adjunct instructor, USC Richard Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles, Brentwood... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11658-mayor-garcetti-pressed-to-end-overdevelopment-leonardo-dicaprio-backs-neighborhood-integrity-initiative - Type: Article - Author: Preserve LA - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [LACMA’s Controversial Expansion Plan: Long on Hype, Short on Context](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11656-lacma-s-controversial-expansion-plan-long-on-hype-short-on-context) August 18 2016 Los Angeles, and it is our task to peel the tinting off the windows so they can see and attend to the real Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin lives in the Fairfax area, several blocks from LACMA and the Purple Line Extension. A veteran city planner, he reports... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11656-lacma-s-controversial-expansion-plan-long-on-hype-short-on-context - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Neighborhood Integrity: For the Sake of All Angelenos](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11641-neighborhood-integrity-for-the-sake-of-all-angelenos) August 15 2016 push back? Hence we have the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, with all sorts of volunteer neighborhood advocates like Dick Platkin and others weighing in. I also again call for a new part of LA City government where LA citizens can go to inquire as to... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11641-neighborhood-integrity-for-the-sake-of-all-angelenos - Type: Article - Author: Ken Alpern - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [Speculation: The Achilles Heel of LA’s ‘Business-Friendly’ Zoning and Environmental Deregulation](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11624-speculatation-the-achilles-heel-of-la-s-business-friendly-zoning-and-environmental-deregulation) August 11 2016 and its sponsor, the Coalition for Preserve LA, and its supporters, such as United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin reports on city planning issues for City Watch. He welcomes comments, criticisms, and corrections at rhplatkin@gmail.com.)... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11624-speculatation-the-achilles-heel-of-la-s-business-friendly-zoning-and-environmental-deregulation - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [California! Eye-Balling the Lesser Evil Up Close: No Climate Change Advantage with Dems in Charge](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11579-california-eye-balling-the-lesser-evil-up-close-no-climate-change-advantage-with-dems-in-charge) August 04 2016 support short-term commercial gain for their patrons, even when the health and safety of the planet is at stake. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. He welcomes comments and corrections at... https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11579-california-eye-balling-the-lesser-evil-up-close-no-climate-change-advantage-with-dems-in-charge - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: LOS ANGELES - Language: \* - ### [City Hall’s Great Conundrum: Getting Developers to Build Affordable Housing … Like Getting Blood from a Stone](https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11544-city-hall-s-great-conundrum-getting-developers-to-build-affordable-housing-like-getting-blood-from-a-stone) July 28 2016 civil disturbances unseen in the United States for many decades and again beyond the capacity of the LAPD to contain. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. 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