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- ###  [The Hollywood Community Plan is for Buildings Not People … Here are 4 Inexpensive Ways to Change That](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/3140-the-hollywood-community-plan-is-for-buildings-not-people-here-are-4-inexpensive-ways-to-change-that)

      May 10 2012  Plan in the form of amendments to the City’s Capital Improvement Program before this Update precedes any further. (Dick Platkin is a CityWatch contributor. He lives in Los Angeles where he teaches, consults, and writes on city planning. He is also...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/3140-the-hollywood-community-plan-is-for-buildings-not-people-here-are-4-inexpensive-ways-to-change-that

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Dick Platkin
    - Category: ARCHIVE
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- ###  [ The Hot-Button Hollywood Community Plan will Fail … Here’s Why](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/2985-the-hot-button-hollywood-community-plan-will-fail-heres-why)

      April 02 2012  large buildings but otherwise ignore the public and private amenities that allow high density living to succeed. (Dick Platkin lives in Los Angeles where he teaches, consults, and writes on city planning. He is also active in the Beverly Wilshire Homes...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/2985-the-hot-button-hollywood-community-plan-will-fail-heres-why

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Dick Platkin
    - Category: ARCHIVE
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- ###  [Hollywood Needs More than Window Dressing and Bogus Claims to Boom Again](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/2787-hollywood-needs-more-than-window-dressing-and-bogus-claims-to-boom-again)

      February 06 2012  which an Iowa farmer builds a baseball diamond that magically materialized high caliber baseball teams and games. ●●● (Dick Platkin was featured at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition \[lanccoalition.org\]… LANCC … meeting on Saturday as were...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/2787-hollywood-needs-more-than-window-dressing-and-bogus-claims-to-boom-again

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Dick Platkin
    - Category: ARCHIVE
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- ###  [Reversing the Field in Sunland-Tujunga ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1825-reversing-the-field-in-sunland-tujunga)

      June 20 2011  it may end up being amended in ways that were unintended at the beginning of the process. "This looks like a way for Dick Platkin to make some money," another source in the Sunland Tujunga community told me. "I can't see any community upside to opening...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1825-reversing-the-field-in-sunland-tujunga

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Joseph Mailander
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- ###  [McMansions Blocking Mr. Tarlow’s View from the Cheap Seats](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/content/article/1728-mcmansions-blocking-mr-tarlows-view-from-the-cheap-seats?catid=311)

      May 26 2011  Kari Bower, Susan Collette, Nora Holtz, Barry Karas, Roseanne Keynan, Gayle Levin, Jason Neidleman, Greg Nise and Dick Platkin, AICP. The authors are longtime Beverly Wilshire homeowners and neighborhood activists. One (Richard Platkin) is also a...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/content/article/1728-mcmansions-blocking-mr-tarlows-view-from-the-cheap-seats?catid=311

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Shelly Wagers
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- ###  [What the Small Group of Noisy Opponents of Mansionization Didn’t Tell You](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1860-charles-tarlow)

      April 22 2011  VOICE IN THE CHEAP SEATS - Let’s talk about what Dick Platkin didn’t tell you in his recent CityWatch article on McMansions. (link) The Great Zoning War of the last five years was fought between those who wanted to limit the size of new homes and those...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1860-charles-tarlow

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    - Author: Charles Tarlow
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- ###  [McMansion Law Toothless, Scourge Continues Unabated](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1844-dick-platkin)

      April 19 2011  to act, to share your views with Council District 5. It is better to do something now rather than point fingers later. (Dick Platkin is city planning consultant on the board of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association. Please send questions or comments to...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/1844-dick-platkin

    - Type: Article
    - Author: Dick Platkin
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