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  • Letter from UN4LA: Why the Purple Line Extension TNP Won’t Work

    Wilshire Community Plan is updated. Attachments, expanding this letter, can be found at http://un4la.com/blog.html. -- Dick Platkin, CityWatchLA columnist and UN4LA Board Member. UN4LA BOARD Casey Maddren, President Grace Yoo, Treasurer Kim Lamorie,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • I.F. Stone: “All Governments Lie.”

    that are the building blocks of local government deception. This column is dedicated to both groups of Angelinos. (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
    • Language: *
  • LA City Hall’s 1-2 Punch Against its Own Residents

    of Administrative Provisions / Amendment” is properly fixed before it tiptoes into the City’s formal adoption process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Two Los Angeles Nominees for the Revived Dubious Achievement Awards

    on METRO’s many web sites, he who pays the piper picks the “build, baby, build” tune before the next financial crisis. (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
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Parallel Universes are on a Collision Course

    prevent the two parallel universes from smashing into each other, we can control the pace and nature of the collision. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why Local Residents Turn Blue Over the Purple Line Up-zoning Scheme?

    would adopt and implement it precede and remain separate from the forthcoming update of the Wilshire Community Plan. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any questions...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Two Words Explain LA’s Woes “Beyond Build-out!”

    claiming that homes prices will only increase due to the huge number of people clamoring to live in Los Angeles. As Dick Platkin showed in a prior CityWatch article, the claim is blatantly false. People are not coming here; they are fleeing. A city that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Five Myths Accelerating LA’s Race to the Bottom

    whose views are based on reality, not myths they use to justify public policies that serve their benefactors. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any questions or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why are WIMBYS in the Public’s Crosshairs? 

    move, they will provide the rest of us with previously obscured information about their true identities and motives. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Troubling Purple Line Questions Just Keep Piling Up … No Answers from the City 

    local organizations in order to dish out short-term favors to commercial property owners and real estate developers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Miserable Walk Down Fairfax Avenue

    transit ridership -- is just window dressing for short-term, crony profiteering through real estate speculation. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any corrections...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Hidden Messages from LA’s Beat-up Sidewalks

    sidewalk repaving, tree loss, and the other maladies revealed by a careful look at LA’s steadily worsening sidewalks. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles for City Watch. Please send any comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • At City Hall Who Makes Land Use Decisions Can Be Deceiving

    scheme masquerading as a transit plan? This is not an issue where silence and feigned neutrality remain an option. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatch.) Please send...

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