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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

December 03 2020 are available at the CityWatchLA archives and https://plan-itlosangeles.blogspot.com/.) Please send corrections to [email protected].) Cartoon: John Ditchburn. Prepped for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.

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

November 25 2020 are available at the CityWatchLA archives and https://plan-itlosangeles.blogspot.com/ . Please send corrections to [email protected]) -cw

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

November 19 2020 columns are available at the CityWatch archives and https://plan-itlosangeles.blogspot.com/. Please send corrections to [email protected].) Prepped for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.

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

November 12 2020 political parties and oppose local zoning deregulation/up-zoning, please post your corrections below or email them to me ([email protected]) for reposting. If the new Councilmembers support the many alternative housing programs I described above, then...

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

November 05 2020 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 United...

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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: *
Climate Change Denial Runs Deep at LA’s City Hall

September 17 2020 negligence. Capt. Benjamin Willard: “Who's the commanding officer here, soldier?” Soldier in Trench: “Ain't 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/20431-climate-change-denial-runs-deep-at-la-s-city-hall
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
How City Hall Corruption Leads to a Failed State

September 10 2020 harsh policing, and the collapse of municipal infrastructure and services – all markers of societal implosion. (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/20389-how-city-hall-corruption-leads-to-a-failed-state
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
Councilmember Martinez, You Can Still Salvage Your “Update the Community Plans” Ballot Measure

September 03 2020 This is the silver bullet that Councilmember Nury Martinez must turn to get what she wants for her constituents. (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/20356-councilmember-martinez-you-can-still-salvage-your-update-the-community-plans-ballot-measure
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
Supply-Siders Chase their Last Mirage: Developers Making a Bundle On Middle Class Housing

August 27 2020 to the $6 trillion that Congress and Federal Reserve Bank have ponied up (so far) for COVID-19 rescue packages. (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/20325-supply-siders-chase-their-last-mirage-developers-making-a-bundle-on-middle-class-housing
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
City Hall Opposes Real Estate Scams in Sacramento, but Welcomes Similar Proposals in its own Backyard

August 20 2020 friendly option that is based on public improvements, including those listed above, that promote transit ridership. (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/20287-city-hall-opposes-real-estate-scams-in-sacramento-but-welcomes-similar-proposals-in-its-own-backyard
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
LA: The Death of Single-Family Neighborhoods … and at What Cost?

August 13 2020 Boulevard but we are engaged in the discussion and not just saying no. This new FOPL plan is different, and my friend Dick Platkin has written extensively on it and lays out at least a dozen flaws in the plan. So, I want to let his good work stand and...

https://mail.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/20252-la-the-death-of-single-family-neighborhoods-and-at-what-cost
- Type: Article
- Author: Jim O’Sullivan
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *
From the White House, to the State House, to City Hall, Real Estate Hustlers are Still Hyping Their Same Awful Projects

August 13 2020 the evidence will be right before your eyes about the malfeasance of the White House, the State House, and City Hall. (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/20250-from-the-white-house-to-the-state-house-to-city-hall-real-estate-hustlers-are-still-hyping-their-same-awful-projects
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: LOS ANGELES
- Language: *

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Want to Finally Do Something about Homelessness? Let’s End Phony Solutions

Will Joe Biden Become the Climate Change President? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

When It Comes to Its Urban Forest, Los Angeles is Not a Nanny State

Updating the Hollywood Community Plan - Tragedy in 2012 and Farce in 2020

Litmus Tests to Smoke Out Sham City Hall Remedies to the Housing Crisis

George W. Bush’s Political Insights Also Apply to “Progressives” in Pale Blue Los Angeles

How Business-as-Usual Triumphs at LA’s City Hall

Former Officials Pitch Proposals to Stop City Hall Corruption in LA

Why LA Has Stopped Voting!

Lincoln Heights Avenue 34 Project – Bad Planning Work and a Whiff of Jose Huizar

LA’s City Hall Could Write the Book on Inept Governance

The California Cargo Cult Shilling for Real Estate Speculators

The Gentrification Monster Wants to Eat Lincoln Heights - A Toxic Avenue 34 Project

Climate Change Denial Runs Deep at LA’s City Hall

How City Hall Corruption Leads to a Failed State

Councilmember Martinez, You Can Still Salvage Your “Update the Community Plans” Ballot Measure

Supply-Siders Chase their Last Mirage: Developers Making a Bundle On Middle Class Housing

City Hall Opposes Real Estate Scams in Sacramento, but Welcomes Similar Proposals in its own Backyard

LA: The Death of Single-Family Neighborhoods … and at What Cost?

From the White House, to the State House, to City Hall, Real Estate Hustlers are Still Hyping Their Same Awful Projects

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