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  • Panaceas - Real and Phony - for the City of the Angels

    squander City Hall’s resources on inflating another real estate bubble. It is time grow trees, not grow big buildings. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatch.) Please...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Scooters will Never Solve the First-Last Mile Barrier to Mass Transit

    urban design, and land use analysis, policies, and implementing programs of the Wilshire Community Plan update. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. Please send any comments, questions, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Ferreting Out Another City Hall Real Estate Scam, One Question at a Time

    about zoning, transit, and population, they are belied by hard facts, all available on City Planning’s own website. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • City Hall Rolling Out the Big Bamboozle for the Purple Line Subway Extension

    scams that enrich developers, line the pockets of decision makers, but not benefit local residents and transit users. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Another City Hall Deception Put on the Fast Track

    transit ridership without any land use changes. This is called doing it right, the opposite of a fast-tracked scam. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • 20 Tell-Tale Signs: The Purple Line Neighborhood Transit Plan is a Real Estate Scam

    windfall through zoning upgrades or build large upscale buildings without zoning waivers and environmental assessments. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any questions,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • City Planning Imitates the Queen of Hearts to “Update” the Wilshire Community Plan

    "Sentence first–verdict afterward." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!" (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He welcomes comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • What Sacrifices are You Willing to Make In These ‘Hard Times?’

    and similar sacrifices if that is what it takes to restore basic public services and infrastructure in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please submit any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA Needs Transit Oriented Districts, Not Transit Oriented Development

    will increase, and the housing crisis will recede through major public programs to transform LA’s built environment. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Will Private Greed or Public Need Prevail When City Hall Reviews This Luxury High-Rise Apartment Building?

    hearing much more when the developer tries to pull building permits for a 275 feet tall high-rise apartment building. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He welcomes questions and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • The Old Distraction Trick: How NOT Deal with LA’s Housing Crisis

    housing crisis, the above list should keep them occupied for many years to come, even if they run for higher office. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Los Angeles Desperately Needs a Design Makeover

    proper funding, and adequate staffing, what is already within easy reach of City Hall will remain a CityWatchpipedream. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local city planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA: Will City Hall Finally Get Serious about Accelerating Climate Change?

    rather than New York City, as the butt of its jokes, City Hall might not properly understand this unsolicited honor. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Garbage In, Garbage Out When It Comes to Most Analyses of the Housing Crisis

    inequality and cutbacks in public housing programs, are the obvious issues for our intellectual and political energies. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA’s Politicians and Academics: Shills for Real Estate Speculators

    could only complicate the build-more-market-housing business model, so the questions are never asked. That is our job! (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Downtown LA and the Strange and Mysterious Vacancy Rates

    difference between an apartment and a hotel room, while the homeless population continues to grow. (Casey Maddren and Dick Platkin wrote this article. They are both members of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles (UN4LA). Email: [email protected]) Prepped...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Casey Maddren and Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel to Support Scott Wiener’s Anti CEQA Bill

    -- when you scrape the bottom of the barrel, take a careful look at what you dredge up before you go public with it. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • To Understand City Hall Politics, You Need to Understand LA’s Current Building Boom

    4 of 5. What happens to these profits? Question 5 of 5. Who are their political enablers of this building boom? (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Real Estate Tycoons Beckon, Eric Garcetti Caves … Again

    it will not succeed in addressing LA’s housing crisis. But, it might help the Mayor’s goal to run for higher office. (Dick Platkin is former Los Angeles city planner who reports of local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Scott Wiener’s Deregulation Bill: Dead in the Water

    based on token amendments and free-market magical thinking means any real coalition is already dead in the water. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments and...

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