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  • Finally, Happy News from City Hall: Council Motions Oppose Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In 2018, Los Angeles, like most California cities, formally opposed SB 827, the YIMBY California/Senator Scott Wiener bill to upzone (i.e., unplanned unappealable increases in the height, size, and density of privately-owned...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17278-finally-happy-news-from-city-hall-council-motions-oppose-scott-wiener-s-senate-bill-50

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

  • CA Senator Wiener’s Resurrection Program Falling Flat

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The first efforts to prime the media pumps for a giant real estate giveaway program, California Senator Scott Wiener’s proposed Senate Bill 50, also dubbed the Son of SB 827 or SB 827 2.0, are out of the gate. So far, the arguments...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17170-ca-senator-wiener-s-resurrection-program-falling-flat

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

  • METRO’s Left Hand Knoweth not what its Right Hand Doeth

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Curbed LA reported this week that METRO’s transit ridership has continued to decline. METRO not only has long-term declining bus ridership, but also declining rail ridership. These trends are not good, but METRO’s assessment of this...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17055-metro-s-left-hand-knoweth-not-what-its-right-hand-doeth

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

  • Why ‘There’s Just No Money’ Claims are So Unconvincing

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-“So, here we are, on a rainy day, in the richest country in the world, in the richest state in the country, in a state as blue as it can be, and in a city rife with millionaires, where teachers have to go on strike to get the basics...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17019-why-there-s-just-no-money-claims-are-so-unconvincing

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • City Hall Corruption Investigations: Where There’s smoke, There’s fire

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The current FBI investigations of City Hall corruption are over due. Hopefully, the FBI will now reach past the low hanging fruit of sweetheart pay-to-play deals to uncover hard facts and produce indictments of higher levels of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16973-city-hall-corruption-investigations-where-there-s-smoke-there-s-fire

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

  • LA City Hall’s Version of the Green New Deal Tainted by Corruption Accusations

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Like clockwork, each week brings forth another alarming scientific study reporting that global warming and climate disruption is accelerating. These studies include the ominous November 2018 National Climate Assessment, issued by 13...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16929-la-city-hall-s-version-of-the-green-new-deal-tainted-by-corruption-accusations

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

  • Curious Facts about Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Los Angeles Uncovered by CSUN Planning Students

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-During the Fall Semester I taught a course for 4th year city planning students at California State University-Northridge (CSUN). Their research revealed more details about the proposed Purple Line “transit neighborhood plan” than...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16890-curious-facts-about-transit-oriented-development-tod-in-los-angeles-uncovered-by-csun-planning-students

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

  • How to Create a Housing Crisis in 12 Easy Steps

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-You don’t need to be a lobbyist for the real estate industry to realize that the entire country, especially Los Angeles, is in the midst of a housing crisis. We can see it for what it is, without using this crisis as a pretext for...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16845-how-to-create-a-housing-crisis-in-12-easy-steps

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

  • The Blinding Light of Real Estate Super-Profits Hits LA, Too

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-I never cease to be amazed how the lure of super-profits blinds the eyes of short-term real estate investors, elected officials and city staffers who enable them, and cheerleaders who lobby for them. With their minds numbed by the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16783-the-blinding-light-of-real-estate-super-profits-hits-la-too

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

  • Scott Wiener, Pied Piper for the New Urban Renewal

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The old Urban Renewal. Urban renewal was the grand strategy of the Federal Government in the post-WWII war era to reconstruct large sections of American cities through local agencies, such as California’s Community Redevelopment...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16737-scott-wiener-pied-piper-for-the-new-urban-renewal

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

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

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Note to CityWatchLA readers: United Neighborhoods for LA (UN4LA) recently sent this letter outlining an alternative to the proposed Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood (Up-zoning) Plan to the three-members of the City Council...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16688-letter-from-un4la-why-the-purple-line-extension-tnp-won-t-work

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

  • I.F. Stone: “All Governments Lie.”

    Platkin on Planning: According to acclaimed investigative journalist, I.F. Stone, all governments lie. Now, looking back on his dogged reporting, it would be great if we could ask him one key question: “How do they lie?” We know that some lies are...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16659-i-f-stone-all-governments-lie

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

  • LA City Hall’s 1-2 Punch Against its Own Residents

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-You may think you live in a community or neighborhood, and you would not be wrong. But, if you log on to typical real estate websites, such as Niche, it is hard to find information about local communities. At best, you learn about...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16568-la-city-hall-s-1-2-punch-against-its-own-residents

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

  • Two Los Angeles Nominees for the Revived Dubious Achievement Awards

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Every year I used to look forward to Esquire’s Dubious Achievement awards, and since the magazine has revived these awards, I have two nominees. The first is METRO, for its design and construction of the Purple Line Extension...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16536-two-los-angeles-nominees-for-the-revived-dubious-achievement-awards

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

  • LA’s Parallel Universes are on a Collision Course

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING - The universe that Angelinos live in. If you live, work, or visit Los Angeles, you have undoubtedly witnessed the following, and can add other categories of your own: The rents are too damn high. A combination of weak rent control,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16481-la-s-parallel-universes-are-on-a-collision-course

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

  • Why Local Residents Turn Blue Over the Purple Line Up-zoning Scheme?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-LA’s Council District 5 requested that a large group of its constituents – representing the neighborhood councils, resident associations, HPOZ boards, homeowner associations, and neighborhood associations impacted by and opposed to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16424-why-local-residents-turn-blue-over-the-purple-line-up-zoning-scheme

    • 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...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16401-two-words-explain-la-s-woes-beyond-build-out

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Five Myths Accelerating LA’s Race to the Bottom

    EIGHT MOST READ - Platkin on Planning: LA may be another city in decline, but at least we know what awaits us when we near the bottom: Rampant homelessness. Highly polluted air, complemented by water shortages. Wild fires, heat waves, droughts, sea...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16371-five-myths-accelerating-la-s-race-to-the-bottom

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

  • Why are WIMBYS in the Public’s Crosshairs? 

    Platkin on Planning: WIMBY stands for “Wall Street in My Backyard.” In Los Angeles journalist Jill Stewart and former Los Angeles LA County Supervisor and City Councilmember, Zev Yaroslavsky, have popularized this term. In a word, WIMBYs are the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16333-why-are-wimbys-in-the-public-s-crosshairs

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

  • Troubling Purple Line Questions Just Keep Piling Up … No Answers from the City 

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-For each unanswered question about this real estate scheme, two more are piling up. To finally get some answers to both, I am posting this CityWatch column as an open letter to City Hall officials who should know the back story. To:...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16287-troubling-purple-line-questions-just-keep-piling-up-no-answers-from-the-city

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