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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
    • Language: *
  • 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
    • Language: *
  • 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
    • Language: *
  • Senator Wiener’s Sacramento Real Estate Bill is Even Worse than You Imagined

    working in Sacramento as a well-paid lobbyist, figuring out how to gentrify what remains of California’s cities. (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
    • Language: *
  • The More You Stir it, the More It Stinks: New Planning Legislation from Sacramento

    new planning legislation. SB 827 will make Los Angeles and other California cities much less sustainable, not more. (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
    • Language: *
  • LA Running Woefully Behind on Updated General Plan … and is Paying a Price

    Johnson argued that the United States will implode by 2050, and in the case of Los Angeles, he might be an optimist. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner. He reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How Big Real Estate is Pushing Back Against LA’s ‘Golden Era’ of Good Planning

    of them worse. This is the price we pay for the broad pushback against the many planning gains in LA’s recent past. (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
    • Language: *
  • Pushing Back Against City Hall Cheaters

    21, 10:30 – 2:30 PM Where: 6500 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028 How: Parking and lunch provided Link: Click here. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatch LA. Please send comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The “Build More Market Housing” Quack Miracle Cure for Los Angeles

    make some landowners and landlords rich, but it will not increase transit ridership or reduce the cost of housing. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angele city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Purple Line Planning Appears to Favor the Developers, Ignore the Riders

    eligible people on the Section 8 housing list in Los Angeles. The time is short to avoid another expensive boondoggle. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angele city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Time is Running Out On 2017, Time for Accountability in Los Angeles

    urban trees, or energy and resource-intensive speculative real estate projects. The time for accountability is at hand. (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
    • Language: *
  • Words Flying Fast and Furious Over the Future of CBS Studios … Will Caruso Grow the Grove?

    of reasons to be on full alert. We need to heed the warnings of the previous Councilmember for this neighborhood. (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
    • Language: *
  • City Hall Putting Its Thumb on the Land Use Scale

    planning process that results when the City’s scales are totally rigged in favor of speculative real estate projects. (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
    • Language: *
  • Telltale Signs You Might be Hobnobbing with a Gentrifier

    City Council, but the result is a housing crisis fueled by gentrification, not a cornucopia of new affordable housing. (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
    • Language: *
  • Pulling Back the Curtain on LA’s Gentrification Movement

    at fanciful schemes to slow down gentrification, remember that there are still three fingers pointing back at them. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles: The War on Transit

    were moving as many vehicles in as large a space as possible. This was supported in a recent CityWatch article where Dick Platkin gives the astonishing statement: “For example, 40 percent of the land area in Los Angeles is dedicated to congested...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Hetz
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Dropping the Ball on Climate Change – It is a Big Club

    taking a strong stand, not posing as climate change advocates while pursuing policies that are exactly the opposite. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch LA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Still More City Hall Real Estate Schemes and Scams

    They are generous, untaxed gifts for developers, adding to a long list of prior schemes and scams in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch LA. Please send any comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Great LA City Council Salmon Run: ‘Proposed’ Planning Dept Ordinances Leap From 22 to 27 in 60 Days!

    will leave the real explanation of all the ways the Council actually approves development to CityWatch contributors like Dick Platkin whose recent column you can find here. A final note on the P&P Ordinance: at last Saturday’s LANCC meeting, it was...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles: Are Cars a Gateway ‘Drug’ to Poor Planning and Incompetent Governing?

    the implementation of the General Plan must focus on upgrading LA’s built environment so it is no longer auto-centric. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues and controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

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