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  • Measure S: Be Careful What You Wish for… Especially if You’re Voting No

    advocates for a well-planned Los Angeles that will finally tame City Hall’s infatuation with real estate speculation. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues in Los Angeles for CityWatch LA. Please send your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Urban Growth Machine Trashes Measure S … with LA Times Support

    Urban Growth Machine will lead to LA’s demise. The city will then have no choice but to fully embrace a planned future. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues in Los Angeles for CityWatch LA. Please send your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Luxury Housing Creates Affordable Housing: Another Free Market Myth

    and demand will never substitute for these programs, which is one more reason Angelinos should vote for Measure S. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues in Los Angeles for CityWatch LA. Please send your comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s City Hall Dems have Become the Party of Big Real Estate … It’s Crocodile Tears for the Rest of Us

    horse for sprawl has clearly never studied the planning documents they so glibly malign and are ready to dispose of. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning issues in Los Angeles for CityWatch LA. Please send your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why LA Needs a Strong Planning Process and Measure S is Essential

    Coming in my next column: The components of the high quality planning process that Yes on S will usher in. Stay tuned. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. Please send any questions,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • City Hall has Ignored the Law and Failed to Update the City’s General Plan for Years … Why Should We Trust Them Now?

    law suits, and electing independent officials who comply with adopted planning and environmental policies and laws. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. He also serves on the board of the Beverly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Major LA Homes Association Endorses Measure S … Here’s Why

    one, send an email to [email protected], and I will get back to you directly or through this CityWatch LA column. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. He also serves on the board of the Beverly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Language: *
  • Memo to Mayor Garcetti about Measure S: Please Don’t Give Away the Store

    one based on the careful planning and monitoring mandated by Measure S, is the leadership Los Angeles now needs. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Which way for LA? Planned transit and density through Measure S or the unplanned jumble that Measure S opponents hope to maintain.

    will sink in among those who sensed but could not quite identify the deceptive arguments from the anti-S groups. (Dick Platkin regularly reports on planning issues for CityWatch. Please send any comments or corrections to [email protected].)

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Millennial Myths about Market Magic (when it comes to Measure S)

    None of these imagined social benefits have appeared in the past and present, and none will appear in this future. (Dick Platkin is former LA City planner who recently taught courses on sustainable city planning at USC and CSUN. He is also a former...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Guywitness Account of the Women’s March in DTLA

    or the expected military conflicts either in the works or to be blundered into by the new administration. (Dick Platkin is former LA City planner who recently taught courses on sustainable city planning at USC and CSUN. He is also a former union...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Editor’s Memo: Lies, Liars and ‘Alternative Facts’

    CityWatch writers weigh in. Beth Cone Kramer was there and reports on the thrill of being a part of LA ‘sister’ March. Dick Platkin provides a ‘guywitness’ report. Kenneth Alpern says ‘the next march should be targeting LA’s City Hall’ and Brady...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Draper
    • Category: WORLD WATCH
    • Language: *
  • Big Real Estate’s Big Bamboozle to Beat Back Measure S on March 7

    trilogy, “It’s just business.” They are checking-in facts and ethics at the door as the March 7 election looms closer. (Dick Platkin is former LA City planner who recently taught courses on sustainable city planning at USC and CSUN. He is also a former...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • City Hall’s Magic Elixir: Ban Soft Corruption, Update Our Community Plans

    based on reliable data for the city’s zoning build-out potential. This is certainly a tall order, but it is necessary. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. He welcomes comments and corrections at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • City Hall Flashback: They’ve Always Lied about Affordable Housing!

    vaguely embarrassed as they toed the party line over any and all protests. In late July of 2016, CityWatch contributor Dick Platkin wrote a very telling article, “Getting Developers to Build Affordable Housing...Like Getting Blood From a Stone.” There...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • ‘No Cars’ at One of LA’s Most Congested Intersections? No Way!

    become the global city that its City Hall boosters magically believe can be achieved through real estate speculation. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner and also a Board Member of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association. He welcomes...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Must for LA in 2017: More Hard-Hitting Investigative Reporting

    but crowd-sourcing our knowledge can and will be the antidote to the neglect of the mainstream, corporate media. (Dick Platkin reports on local planning issues in Los Angeles for CityWatch. Please send any questions, comments, or corrections to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Can the Cheap Perfume of “Approve-with-Conditions” Mask the Stink of Bad Planning?

    and Beverly Hills has many pedestrian-oriented projects and corridors, with buildings that conform to plans and zones. (Dick Platkin is a veteran city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatch, and he welcomes comments and questions at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Putting the Brakes on Mansionization in LA: No Rest for the Weary

    the public sector and private commercial interests that now seamlessly stretches from City Hall to the White House. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angele city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Smearing the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative: Big Real Estate is No ‘Grassroots Organization’

    the bigger they come, the harder they fall. Money can buy you lots of things, but so far, basic facts are not for sale. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angele city planner who reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS
    • Language: *
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