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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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: *
  • What “Business as Usual” Means at City Hall and for the Residents of Los Angeles

    forward. Many other cities can show us the way, and their best practices are already there for Los Angeles to copy. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch LA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Debunking  the ‘NIMBY’ Myth

    from real estate speculators, their backers, and their supporters, about their elusive foe, the fictional NIMBY. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send any comments or correction to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • The Great Inequality Machine – How LA City Hall does its Part

    local residents in the process, and, therefore, does its part to increase wealth and income disparities in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on planning-related issues in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Cooking Up a Grassroots Community Plan

    hold a public training session on Sunday, October 29. Stay tuned for further details or contact me, as listed below. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who on reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Please send comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Another Big Real Estate ‘Big Bamboozle’: ‘Infill Development Halts Climate Change’

    look reveals it to be just another real estate scam that should be dismissed as a self-serving Big Real Estate fable. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on planning and climate issues for CityWatch. He welcomes comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Lessons from Houston - Here in LA, Nature also Rules Supreme

    can be properly rectified in the long term if local communities now take the lead on the planning and safety issues. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch LA. He welcomes comments and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA Could Learn Some Planning Lessons from the Emerald City

    investment as their Seattle counterparts, they are laggards when it comes to the rest of a comprehensive urban agenda. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues and controversies for City Watch LA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Housing Crisis: Much Worse than You Think

    programs are largely dormant, at this point there is a not-so-secret ingredient to bring them back to life: MONEY. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch LA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Simple Home Remedy for Olympic Fever

    1992 civil disturbance took place eight years after the 1984 Olympics. That tide never managed to lift all ships. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The “Just-No-Money-for-That” Blues 

    there is more than enough money for both, and then for aspirational programs, such as Medicare or Medicaid for all. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • No, Gentrification Doesn’t Just Happen … City Hall Promotes It at Every Turn

    finally become forceful advocates for implementing and funding these public improvements? Don’t bet the farm on it. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please send any comments or corrections to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Which Vision for Los Angeles: An Updated General Plan or Another Real Estate Bubble?

    the proper funding of municipal infrastructure and services, must be at the heart of any analysis and planning process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send comments,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Other Great Abdication: Professional City Planning’s retreat from Professional City Planning

    the sponsors are not forced to abruptly cancel it because of another electricity black out or burst water main. (Dick Platkin reports is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please send any comments or corrections...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Two New Climate Advocates: Long on Spin, Short on Details

    belief that real estate speculation is the magic elixir that cures all urban crises, including climate change. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send comments, corrections, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Occupy LA: Lessons Learned

    economic inequality to foreign policy, and trusting Democratic politicians,) they have an excellent chance of success. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send comments,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • City Hall’s Universal Fixit: Green Lighting Real Estate Speculation

    out Wall Street real estate scammers and funding foreign wars to long neglected public infrastructure and services. (Dick Platkin is a former L.A. city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Please send any comments or corrections...

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