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  • Still More City Hall Real Estate Schemes and Scams

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Question: Is the dizzy array of new zoning ordinances welling up at LA’s City Hall really intended to address LA’s twin crises of affordable housing and traffic congestion? Answer: No. Crocodile tears for traffic congestion, the...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14375-still-more-city-hall-real-estate-schemes-and-scams

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The Great LA City Council Salmon Run: ‘Proposed’ Planning Dept Ordinances Leap From 22 to 27 in 60 Days!

    leave the real explanation of all the ways the Council actually approves development to CityWatch contributors like Dick Platkin whose recent column you can find here. A final note on the P&P Ordinance: at last Saturday’s LANCC meeting, it was explained...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14357-the-great-la-city-council-salmon-run-proposed-planning-dept-ordinances-leap-from-22-to-27-in-60-days

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Los Angeles: Are Cars a Gateway ‘Drug’ to Poor Planning and Incompetent Governing?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is easy to understand how street and prescription drugs became a gateway to opioid addiction, which now kills 64,000 people per year in the United States. But, it is much harder to understand how that great technological wonder...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14337-los-angeles-are-cars-a-gateway-drug-to-poor-planning-and-incompetent-governing

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • What “Business as Usual” Means at City Hall and for the Residents of Los Angeles

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is not easy to remain “king of the hill” on a playground or even in the backrooms of City Hall. But, to hold on to power, we have seen how desperate times require desperate measures. This is why the violent end of Occupy Los...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14296-what-business-as-usual-means-at-city-hall-and-for-the-residents-of-los-angeles

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Debunking  the ‘NIMBY’ Myth

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Like jackalopes and unicorns, NIMBY’s (Not in my backyard) are imaginary beings. Nevertheless, real estate “developers” still spread much ill will about them. They are also endlessly pilloried by City Hall lobbyists, campaign...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14252-debunking-the-nimby-myth

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The Great Inequality Machine – How LA City Hall does its Part

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As our illustrious President tries to bamboozle the American public into believing that his back-of-the-envelope tax and health plans -- that allow the rich to get even richer – will actually lift the income of working people, it is...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14209-the-great-inequality-machine-how-la-city-hall-does-its-part

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Cooking Up a Grassroots Community Plan

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By state law every city in California must have a timely, internally consistent, regularly updated, and annually monitored General Plan. This plan must address the entire land area of a city and must include all infrastructure and...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14135-cooking-up-a-grassroots-community-plan

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Another Big Real Estate ‘Big Bamboozle’: ‘Infill Development Halts Climate Change’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-When it comes to justifications for big, speculative real estate projects, the big bamboozlers have no limit. But, the bigger their lies, the harder they fall. In this case their lie is the “conventional wisdom” that suburban sprawl...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14012-another-big-real-estate-big-bamboozle-infill-development-halts-climate-change

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Lessons from Houston - Here in LA, Nature also Rules Supreme

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In city planning circles Houston is (in)famous for its lack of zoning laws. Furthermore, Houston only adopted its first General Plan in January 2017, which means blind market forces continue to determine all of its local land use...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13956-lessons-from-houston-here-in-la-nature-also-rules-supreme

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA Could Learn Some Planning Lessons from the Emerald City

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-My roots as a city planner go back to Seattle, where I studied city planning at the University of Washington and worked for the City of Seattle, before heading south to Los Angeles. I have just returned from a visit to Seattle, and...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13920-la-could-learn-some-planning-lessons-from-the-emerald-city

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Los Angeles:  Who Has the Right to Live in the City? 

    protection of a small number of neighborhoods, gentrification continues to make a yearly loss of 5,000 units. City Planner Platkin argues that though Los Angeles city and county are allocating funds to build affordable housing, but funds won’t have any...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13868-los-angeles-who-has-the-right-to-live-in-the-city

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Julia Stein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Housing Crisis: Much Worse than You Think

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Driving through Skid Row, witnessing homeless encampments near luxury apartment complexes, encountering people living in their cars, hearing stories about long commutes to the Antelope Valley for cheaper housing, or reading the...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13817-la-s-housing-crisis-much-worse-than-you-think

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • A Simple Home Remedy for Olympic Fever

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The announcement that Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics has lead to a highly contagious disease: Olympic Fever. It is particularly virulent among the same well-off crowd that imagines a few iconic buildings designed by...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13781-a-simple-home-remedy-for-olympic-fever

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The “Just-No-Money-for-That” Blues 

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Although I have taken the Los Angeles Times to task for its coverage of local planning issues, especially when it became a mouthpiece for the no on S campaign, on Sunday, July 30, 2017, the paper got it right. So, hats off to...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13725-the-just-no-money-for-that-blues

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • No, Gentrification Doesn’t Just Happen … City Hall Promotes It at Every Turn

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In an editorial critical of the pushback against gentrification in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Times portrays gentrification as a result of blind economic forces that also uplift local communities. I challenge both of these...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13680-no-gentrification-doesn-t-just-happen-city-hall-promotes-it-at-every-turn

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Which Vision for Los Angeles: An Updated General Plan or Another Real Estate Bubble?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now most of us know what ails Los Angeles. To cite some of the city’s most imminent emergencies: Expanding housing crisis resulting in evictions, homelessness, overcrowding, and long commutes to distant suburbs with affordable...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13622-which-vision-for-los-angeles-an-updated-general-plan-or-another-real-estate-bubble

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The Other Great Abdication: Professional City Planning’s retreat from Professional City Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--What a pleasant, but short-lived surprise to discover that in late June 2017 UCLA’s renowned Luskin School of Public Affairs sponsored a forum entitled, Can LA fix its Broken Planning System? Needless to say, I read an article...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13581-other-great-abdication-professional-city-planning-s-retreat-from-professional-city-planning

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Two New Climate Advocates: Long on Spin, Short on Details

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--While we plebeians dawdle away our lives cooking, cleaning, studying, working, raising families, and helping friends and relatives in need, we can (kind-of) sleep comfortably knowing our local elected officials are hard at work...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13522-la-s-two-new-climate-advocates-long-on-spin-short-on-details

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Occupy LA: Lessons Learned

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Before memory fades completely, this is the time to take stock of the Occupy mass movement of 2011. A few years into the Great Recession, it began with Occupy Wall Street, and then quickly spread to over 1000 encampments, including...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13458-occupy-la-lessons-learned

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • City Hall’s Universal Fixit: Green Lighting Real Estate Speculation

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-When you are hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, or in the case of the City of Los Angeles, when you are totally wedded to real estate speculation, you only have one hammer, up-zoning to fix all urban ills/nails. But, there...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13423-city-hall-s-universal-fixit-green-lighting-real-estate-speculation

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
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