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  • The Devil’s in the Details – LA Speculators Can Still Scam the System in the Build a Better LA Initiative

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles real estate speculators have refined their tool box of scams to either block or contain local neighborhoods when they push back against projects that are out-of-character, out-of-scale, exceed the capacity of local...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10605-the-devil-s-in-the-details-la-speculators-can-still-scam-the-system-in-the-build-a-better-la-iniative

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

  • Why We Hate McMansions: Counting the Reasons

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-A brief note: Opponents of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative have repeatedly claimed that it would block the construction of new affordable housing. In CityWatch I have twice asked readers to send me any addresses where that has...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10565-why-we-hate-mcmansions-counting-the-reasons

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

  • Progress or NIMBYism in Sunland Tujunga? I Say Let’s Make a Deal

    that is too much to hope for…. So back to NIMBY... the anachronistic term for "Not in My Back Yard." My colleague Dick Platkin, an expert on city planning or the lack thereof, thinks "NIMBYism is an epithet used by real estate speculators to disparage...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10461-progress-or-nimbyism-in-sunland-tujunga-i-say-let-s-make-a-deal-2

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Denyse Selesnick
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • How to Smoke Out Flacks for Luxury High-Rise Projects Who Masquerade as Friends of the Down-and-Out

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In the dystopian movie about Los Angeles, “Blade Runner,” the lead character, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), was an expert at sleuthing out Replicants. They are androids so human that only an expert can detect them with 20 to 30...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10455-how-to-smoke-out-flacks-for-luxury-high-rise-projects-who-masquerade-as-friends-of-the-down-and-out

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

  • Phony Sustainability Arguments Used to justify High-Rise, Luxury Buildings

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--When investors decide to plunk their own money -- or more likely someone else’s money – into high-rise buildings, usually with luxury apartments or condos, their motivation is to turn a handsome profit. Despite their public...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10428-phony-sustainability-arguments-used-to-justify-high-rise-luxury-buildings

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

  • Why We Need to Carefully Monitor Infrastructure in Los Angeles

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Concerns over LA’s mounting infrastructure problems are everywhere. Is it structures that will fail in El Nino floods? Coastal facilities that cannot withstand the rising seas caused by climate change? Sidewalk repairs that will...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10413-why-we-need-to-carefully-monitor-infrastructure-in-los-angeles

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

  • City Planning Debates: More Heat than Light

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--There is no shortage of heat when it comes to planning debates in Los Angeles, but not much light, especially when attention turns to the proposed Neighborhood Protect Initiative. For example, an instant opposition group, that does...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10347-city-planning-debates-more-heat-than-light

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

  • Backlash to Overdevelopment in LA … ‘The People’ Finding a Voice In Court and On the Ballot

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--The Los Angeles Business Journal is preparing a story on the “backlash to development in the city of Los Angeles and how developers and business groups are starting to fight back.” As part of the Journal’s research for the article,...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10252-backlash-to-overdevelopment-in-la-the-people-finding-a-voice-in-court-and-on-the-ballot

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

  • Mayor Offers LA’s Planning Director Job to the Boy Next Door

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--The simultaneous announcements from the Mayor’s Office that the current Director of City Planning, Michael LoGrande, has resigned, and his successor will be – pending confirmation -- Vince Bertoni, currently Pasadena’s Planning...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/10290-mayor-offers-la-s-planning-director-job-to-the-boy-next-door

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *

  • Stories from the Front Lines: Los Angeles Planning Disputes Old and New

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Old planning disputes are still with us: For those with memories going back to the 1980s or curiosity about that decade, the planning disputes now widespread in Los Angeles are an echo of what already took place three decades ago....

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10204-stories-from-the-front-lines-los-angeles-planning-disputes-old-and-new

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

  • Quality of Life vs. Mansionization: The Real Issue

    Side of the Mansionization Debate” (24 Dec 2015), Tarlow attacks former city planner and anti-mansionization activist Dick Platkin by saying that the proposed amendments to the city’s Baseline Mansionization Ordinance (BMO) “will do nothing to enhance...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10175-quality-of-life-vs-mansionization-the-real-issue

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robert Eisele
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Are We Witnessing Another Real Estate Bubble in Los Angeles?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you are following debates over growth and density in Los Angeles, I strongly recommend you watch the new film, The Big Short. Without giving away too much of the plot, it is about several financial analysts who saw through the...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10159-are-we-witnessing-another-real-estate-bubble-in-los-angeles

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

  • The Other Side of the Mansionization Debate

    COUNTERPOINT--I have been trying very hard not to weigh in on Dick Platkin's latest “Mansionization Crusade” to limit our ability to build a modern home in Los Angeles. I spent 7-plus years defending my neighborhood against his misguided mission to...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10157-the-other-side-of-the-mansionization-debate

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Charles Tarlow
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Mansionization at a Crossroads: If You Think Your House is a Home … Speak Up Now

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Reform has finally started on LA’s fatally failed Baseline Mansionization Ordinance and Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BMO/BHO). The Planning Department has recently published its draft amendments and has already held four public...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/10117-mansionization-at-a-crossroads-if-you-think-your-house-is-a-home-speak-up-now

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • Endless Bad Zoning Decisions in LA and Beyond - Why Paris Climate Change Talks are Bound to Fail

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Some local stories on the sabotaging of the California Environmental Quality Act and the Complete Streets Act help explain how millions of small land use decisions in Los Angeles, the entire country, and for that matter the entire...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/10079-endless-bad-zoning-decisions-in-la-and-beyond-why-paris-climate-change-talks-are-bound-to-fail

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • The More You Look at it, the More it Stinks

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you live in or have barreled through the Fairfax area during the past two years, you have undoubtedly seen an aircraft carrier masquerading as a house at the confusing intersection of Crescent Heights, Colgate, and Edinburgh. As...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/10050-the-more-you-look-at-it-the-more-it-stinks

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • Action Alert! Angelenos Must Vote for the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you follow social media, like CityWatch or the mainstream media, like the LA Times, then you have probably heard of the recently proposed Neighborhood Integrity Initiative. If not, expect to hear a great deal about it, both pro...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/10015-action-alert-angelenos-must-vote-for-the-neighborhood-integrity-initiative

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • Why Not Make Every Street in Los Angeles a Great Street?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--At a recent meeting of LA’s Neighborhood Council Congress my eyes glazed over at the session on Mayor Garcetti’s Great Streets initiative. I had assumed that its first streets were prototypes. They were to be a catalyst for a...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/9979-why-not-make-every-street-in-los-angeles-a-great-street

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • Mobility Plan 2035: A Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In general, the public pays little attention to the City of LA’s legally required General Plan, including its mandatory and optional Elements. But the required Circulation Element, called the Mobility Plan or MP 2035, is different,...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/9932-mobility-plan-2035-a-road-to-hell-paved-with-good-intentions

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Shutting Down the Mansionization of LA’s Neighborhoods is Gonna be a Wild Ride

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you get vertigo trying to understand how the City of Los Angeles deals with mansionization, in particular how so many ordinances could be so totally useless in stopping McMansions, you are not suffering from an inner-ear...

    https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive/9906-you-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet-shutting-down-the-mansionization-of-la-s-neighborhoods-is-gonna-be-a-wild-ride

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *
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