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  • Here Come the Fauxgressives! The Latest Incarnation of Wall Street in My Back Yard (WIMBYs)

    crises worse. Conditions are already bad, and if they get their way, Los Angeles will continue its downward slide. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • When City Hall Does the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason - Dumping the Miracle Mile’s ‘Transit Neighborhood Plan’           

    the Update could become an unplanned mess of new, expensive apartments that make the transit and housing crises worse. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • New Lessons from LA’s McMansion Wars

    take another grass roots movement to wake up the denizens of City Hall to the real estate hell enveloping Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Cut from the Same Cloth: Municipal, State, and Federal Officials Spout Urban Reaganomics to Solve the Housing Crisis

    wasting their political energy on schemes, like up-zoning, that reinforce the racial patterns they pretend to oppose. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Homelessness Now Kills More Angelenos than Homicide – Options to Address the Housing Emergency

    (“SCNA”). The views expressed in the article and do not necessarily reflect the views of either the PICO NC or the SCNA. Dick Platkin lives in the Miracle Mile area and writes the weekly Planning Watch column for CityWatch. Please send any questions or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Brad S. Kane and Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Big Bamboozle #2 – How LA Hopes to Extend a Real Estate Boom and Hold off its Eventual Bust

    that reveals the social consequences of hijacking the form, but not the substance, of the official planning process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Another Big Bamboozle – the New 2021-2029 Los Angeles Housing Element?

    bamboozle, please read these two studies and then share their findings and your conclusions with elected officials. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Bound to Fail: Pawning off Urban Reaganomics as ‘Progressive’ Housing Policy

    PLANNING WATCH-Whether you call it Reaganomics, neo-liberalism, trickle-down or supply-side economics, privatization, or deregulation, failure is certain. As I have argued in previous Planning Watch columns, urban Reaganomics will not solve the current...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Failed Logic of Planning in Los Angeles: Full Speed Into the Rocks

    do not add up, none of this should be surprising, especially to those charged with planning the future of Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • As DONE Destructs, Their Incompetence Breeds Dysfunction in Lincoln Heights, Along with a Bright Spot

    Committee). He can be reached at [email protected]. PS -- I have it on good authority that my CityWatch colleague Dick Platkin, is also a founding member. This could be exciting! (Tony Butka is an Eastside community activist, who has served on a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense

    decline, the more the housing crisis will grow, and the more the LA’s infrastructure and public services will crumble. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Want to Finally Do Something about Homelessness?  Let’s End Phony Solutions

    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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Will Joe Biden Become the Climate Change President? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

    PLANNING WATCH-Because Donald Trump has a well-deserved reputation for making the climate crisis worse, many pro-Biden pundits believed that Biden’s victory over Trump means the United States government will now take the climate crisis seriously. They...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • When It Comes to Its Urban Forest, Los Angeles is Not a Nanny State

    PLANNING WATCH--Even though Los Angeles has a nearly perfect climate, fall is best time to plant new trees and save LA’s existing trees. Trees, after all, are nature’s way to combat the climate crisis by cooling heat islands and sequestering rapidly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Updating the Hollywood Community Plan - Tragedy in 2012 and Farce in 2020

    PLANNING WATCH-If you forgot that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and the second time as farce, you only need to look at City Hall’s repeated efforts to update the Hollywood Community Plan. Despite two decades of updating, Superior Court Judge...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Litmus Tests to Smoke Out Sham City Hall Remedies to the Housing Crisis

    the many alternative housing programs I described above, then please share your evidence with CityWatch’s readers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • George W. Bush’s Political Insights Also Apply to “Progressives” in Pale Blue Los Angeles

    homeless 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How Business-as-Usual Triumphs at LA’s City Hall

    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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Former Officials Pitch Proposals to Stop City Hall Corruption in LA

    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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why LA Has Stopped Voting!

    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...

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