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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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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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