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  • Lavish Funding for a Lavish Bait and Switch Real Estate Scam: LA’s Transit Oriented Communities Guidelines

    outcomes is anathema. Monitoring would quickly document that the claims are false and would therefore expose the scams. (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: *
  • Six Big Lies to Keep the Latest Real Estate Bubble Inflated

    of them debunked, let me know. The bigger the lies come, the harder they fall, despite the current real estate bubble. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Crude vs Cool: A Shared Disrespect for the Law

    its criminogenic densification. In his recent CityWatch article, “Solving an LA Housing Mystery … One Clue at a Time,” Dick Platkin explained many of the mechanisms the Garcetti Administration uses to decimate LA. Since Mr. Platkin is a planner by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How Sleazy is LA’s Planning Process? More Than You Imagine!

    much large stories involving deliberate decisions to not follow City Charter, adopted plans, and State planning laws. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *
  • Senate Bill 330: Yet Another Costly Statewide Upzoning Bill

    and is active on land use issues in her neighborhood council. Please send any comments to [email protected]. Dick Platkin assisted in the editing of this article.) -cw

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Hydee Feldstein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Solving an LA Housing Mystery … One Clue at a Time

    building size regulations for privately owned parcels), I have added extra online references to back up this column.) (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Your Call, Angelenos: A Bottom-Up or Top-Down Community Plan

    update of their Community Plans. It will improve with comments, so please let me know what should be changed or added. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planning who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He serves on the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Public Boondoggle with Nine Lives: The Death-Defying Purple Line Extension “Transit Neighborhood Plan”

    that our elected officials represent their constituents, not the capital gains crowd and their City Hall lobbyists. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner, who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Low Hanging Fruit to Combat the Climate Crisis

    legacy of broken sidewalks, treeless corridors, problematic transit, and car-oriented streets still reigning supreme. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner. He reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch, and he welcomes comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why so Many DWP Power Outages in Los Angeles? Hint: Real Estate Speculation has Consequences

    and public services. Good luck with your Shake Alert LA app, emergency flashlights, power bars, and water bottles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Building Boom: Who Really Benefits?

    spiral of neglect will continue, despite the sparkling new buildings, many opening just in time for the 2028 Olympics. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the Board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Sometimes Connecting the Dots in Los Angeles is Just Too Hard

    of 4,000,000 people in LA and 13 million in our metropolitan area. When there is a reckoning, we know where blame lies. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Not-Very-Green New Deal(s) to Address the Climate Crisis

    with short-lived Mayoral executive documents and innocuous Council motions and resolutions instead of the real thing. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s City Hall Running out of Excuses: Other Cities Prove Things Can be Done Right

    a higher quality of life and also reduces the generation of the Green House Gases responsible for the climate crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s 50-Year Break-Up with Comprehensive Planning

    can easily work around required General Plans and implementing zoning ordinances, as they do every day in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles: Home of a Well-Oiled Homelessness Machine

    go a long way in combatting homelessness caused by the gaps between soaring rents and stagnant and declining incomes. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. He serves on...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The NY Times Like the LA Times: Cheerleaders for VooDoo Economics Housing Schemes

    not neighborhood activists who maintain that City Hall policies and programs are the real causes of the housing crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He serves on the Board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • FACT CHECK: On Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 330, Dick Platkin’s Article Was Right on Every Point

    BACKTALK-This article focuses on the language of SB 330 itself to show why Dick Platkin’s article on SB 330 as published here in CityWatch was correct, and the response by Senator Skinner’s office as published here in CityWatch is misleading and not an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Hydee Feldstein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • More Evidence the LAT “Just Doesn’t Get It” When It Comes to Hidden Real Estate Scams

    control, reforming the Ellis Act, and inspecting affordable units to assure they are reserved for low-income renters. (Dick Platkin is a city planner who writes a weekly planning column for CityWatchLA. He worked as a Los Angeles city planner from 1987...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • What Ever Happened to the Blue-Ribbon ‘Los Angeles 2000 – City of the Future’ Report?

    view that allowed so many good things in the LA 2000 – City of the Future report to be flushed down the memory hole. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. He serves...

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