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  • Sometimes Connecting the Dots in Los Angeles is Just Too Hard

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Most kids learn how to connect the dots in pre-school, but this skill has faded away for leading members of LA’s urban growth machine, especially the Los Angeles Times and City Hall officials. For reasons not difficult to figure...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18051-sometimes-connecting-the-dots-in-los-angeles-is-just-too-hard

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

  • LA’s Not-Very-Green New Deal(s) to Address the Climate Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-City officials have offered Angelenos two, or possibly three, local versions of the Congressional Green New Deal. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s dubbed the latest version of his executive climate change document, Sustainability pLAn 2019,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18016-la-s-not-very-green-new-deal-s-to-address-the-climate-crisis

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

  • LA’s City Hall Running out of Excuses: Other Cities Prove Things Can be Done Right

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Los Angeles was dealt a bad hand in 1978, when California voters adopted Proposition 13. It was dealt another bad hand when the Reagan and Clinton administrations drastically cut urban funding, especially HUD public housing programs...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17941-la-s-city-hall-running-out-of-excuses-other-cities-prove-things-can-be-done-right

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

  • LA’s 50-Year Break-Up with Comprehensive Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Few Angelenos know that Los Angeles has a detailed General (Comprehensive) Plan, including the city’s on-and-off 50-year-old break up with comprehensive planning. Despite its unplanned appearance, Los Angeles is subject to extensive...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17902-la-s-50-year-break-up-with-comprehensive-planning

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

  • Los Angeles: Home of a Well-Oiled Homelessness Machine

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Even though LA City officials were taken aback by the city’s recent 16 percent increase in homelessness, they shouldn’t be. If they candidly looked at the many planning ordinances they adopted, they would realize they are largely...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17843-los-angeles-home-of-a-well-oiled-homelessness-machine

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

  • The NY Times Like the LA Times: Cheerleaders for VooDoo Economics Housing Schemes

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-CityWatch has recently published several articles explaining how and why Los Angeles Times’ reporting on the state’s housing crisis is so consistently wrong. But, there is no reason to give this paper a hometown advantage since the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17801-the-ny-times-like-the-la-times-cheerleaders-for-voodoo-economics-housing-schemes

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

  • FACT CHECK: On Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 330, Dick Platkin’s Article Was Right on Every Point

    BACKTALK-This article focuses on the language of SB 330 itself to show why Dick Platkin’s article on SB 330 as published here in CityWatch was correct, and the response by Senator Skinner’s office as published here in CityWatch is misleading and not an...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17783-fact-check-on-sen-nancy-skinner-s-sb-330-dick-platkin-s-article-was-right-on-every-point

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Hydee Feldstein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • More Evidence the LAT “Just Doesn’t Get It” When It Comes to Hidden Real Estate Scams

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Fellow CityWatch columnist Casey Maddren exposed the failure of the Los Angeles Times to adequately cover highly controversial housing legislation, specifically Senate Bill 50, in Sacramento. His article, SB 50: The LA Times Just...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17781-more-evidence-the-lat-just-doesn-t-get-it-when-it-comes-to-hidden-real-estate-scams

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

  • CA Senator Skinner to LA Planner Platkin: On State Bill 330 You Got It Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

    TALKBACK--Unfortunately, this op-ed published on CityWatchLA.com is riddled with false claims about SB 330 by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. (Senator Skinner: Photo above.) Here is a rundown of nine of them: False claim #1: “Senate Bill 330...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17757-ca-senator-skinner-to-la-planner-platkin-on-state-bill-330-you-got-it-wrong-wrong-wrong

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robert Gammon
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • What Ever Happened to the Blue-Ribbon ‘Los Angeles 2000 – City of the Future’ Report?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Once upon a time, in world far, far away, Los Angeles called itself the city of the future. In 1985 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley assembled a blue-ribbon panel drawn from the city’s elites to chart the future of Los Angeles....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17753-what-ever-happened-to-the-blue-ribbon-los-angeles-2000-city-of-the-future-report

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

  • California Senate Bill 330 is the Evil Twin of Tabled SB 50.  The Difference is It’s Still Under Consideration.

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING: Unlike Senator Scott Wiener’s and California YIMBY’s SB 50, which could not withstand a torrent of public opposition, other supply-side housing bills have managed to survive. The worst are SB 330 and AB 1279, whose multiple...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17739-california-senate-bill-330-is-the-evil-twin-of-tabled-sb-50-the-difference-is-it-s-still-under-consideration

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

  • Debate Over SB 50 Inspires Bigger Fight Over California’s Real Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING: The intense debate over Senate Bill 50 really turns on a more important, but poorly articulated debate about California’s real housing crisis. These are the basic four questions to which I will offer some answers, none of which...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17679-debate-over-sb-50-inspires-bigger-fight-over-california-s-real-housing-crisis

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

  • David Ryu Hits a Triple: Exposes Multiple Flaws in the Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It’s rare that I use my CityWatch column to praise a City Hall official for doing the right thing. But, Councilmember David Ryu and his staff deserve compliments for their clear and critical letter to the Director of Planning, Vince...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17631-david-ryu-hits-a-triple-exposes-multiple-flaws-in-the-purple-line-transit-neighborhood-plan

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

  • Wall Street on Steroids in Your Backyard: The Full Story on Changes to SB 50

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Senate Bill 50, Scott Wiener's proposed “More Housing” bill, is barreling through the California State Senate in Sacramento. The legislation is complex, even though its essence is clear. If adopted, it would accelerate the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17584-wall-street-on-steroids-in-your-backyard-the-full-story-on-changes-to-sb-50

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

  • Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles will get Worse

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Traffic congestion in car-oriented Los Angeles is notoriously bad, and due to many separate decisions by City Hall, METRO, and the California State legislature, it will get worse. The reason is that by prioritizing real estate...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17537-traffic-congestion-in-los-angeles-will-get-worse

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

  • So Little Time, So Many Tall Tales - To Increase the Profits of Real Estate Investors

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Time to debunk the five tall tales crammed into the two short sentences below to lobby for Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50, legislation whose not-so-well-hidden-agenda is to boost profits from commercial and residential real estate....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17498-so-little-time-so-many-tall-tales-to-increase-the-profits-of-real-estate-investors

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

  • ‘Round Up the Usual Suspects!’ Who will Benefit? Who will be Hurt If SB 50 Passes?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The who-benefits list is the same list as those who sing the praises of Scott Wiener’s proposed Senate Bill 50 as a masterful solution to California’s chronic crises of housing, transit, and climate change. Owners of commercial, R3,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17452-round-up-the-usual-suspects-who-will-benefit-who-will-be-hurt-if-sb-50-passes

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

  • If You Think SB 50 will be Bad, Think Again: It will Actually be Much Worse

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now most CityWatch readers are familiar with SB 50, California State Senator Scott Wiener’s reboot of last year’s SB 827, a bill that died in committee. But many people do not yet know that despite a slick PR campaign, SB 50 is...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17404-if-you-think-sb-50-will-be-bad-think-again-it-will-actually-be-much-worse

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

  • Will LA Finally Establish a City Department and Plan to address Climate Change?  Maybe.

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Last week the City Council’s Energy, Climate Change and Environmental Justice Committee (ECCEJ) moved forward in establishing a Los Angeles Climate Emergency Mobilization Department. The Committee responded to a detailed proposal...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17357-will-la-finally-establish-a-city-department-and-plan-to-address-climate-change-maybe

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

  • How City Hall Lying Contributes to Plummeting Trust in Government: An LA Case Study

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As someone who worked for public agencies most of his career, it is disheartening – but not surprising -- to see data on the growing public distrust of government. While fully understandable, distrust is getting worse for both...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17311-how-city-hall-liars-contributes-to-plummeting-trust-in-government-an-la-case-study

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