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  • Los Angeles Still Suffering from Fake Traffic Solutions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Yes, traffic congestion in Los Angeles is bad and getting worse. In fact, Los Angeles has the worst traffic congestion of any US city. A recent study from the Washington State based Inryx institute concluded that Angelinos are, on...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13286-los-angeles-still-suffering-from-fake-traffic-solutions

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

  • New Jane Jacobs Doc: Valuable Planning Lessons for LA … Needs Updating in the Era of Pay-to-Play

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-I recently saw the new documentary about Jane Jacobs, called Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times praised it to the heavens, but my take is more muted. The film’s history of New York City in the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13200-new-jane-jacobs-doc-valuable-planning-lessons-for-la-needs-updating-in-the-era-of-pay-to-play

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

  • The 1992 LA Civil Disturbance: Can’t We All Just Stop the Spin?

    public is not apparently bamboozled by reports of LAPD reforms and feel good stories about ethnic fusion restaurants. (Dick Platkin reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Progressive Planning published an earlier version of this article....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13148-the-1992-la-civil-disturbance-can-t-we-all-just-stop-the-spin

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

  • LA’s Climate Change March is Saturday in Wilmington … Keep LA’s Skies Blue … Be There!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If your email box is like mine, it is filled with invitations to Saturday’s Climate Change march and rally in Wilmington’s Banning Park. This rally begins at 11 AM, and it will be followed by a march to the nearby Tesoro Refinery,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13111-la-s-climate-change-march-is-saturday-in-wilmington-keep-la-s-skies-blue-be-there

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

  • Trickling Down to Nowhere: The Free Market’s Failure to Fix LA’s Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It goes by many names – the free market, trickle-down economics, supply side economics, market magic, market fundamentalism, and neo-liberalism – but its content is the same. Let the private sector maximize its profits through...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13057-trickling-down-to-nowhere-the-free-market-s-failure-to-fix-la-s-housing-crisis

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

  • Climate Change: No Time for Angelenos to become Smug about Smog

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The jury is no longer out. Our new President, Donald Trump, is the climate change denier-in-chief. He has called climate change a Chinese plot. He has appointed another unabashed climate change denier, Scott Pruitt, to run the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12981-climate-change-no-time-for-angelenos-to-become-smug-about-smog

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

  • The Real Reasons Why LA’s General Plan Must be Updated

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-A hint: it is not to bestow financial gifts to major real estate investors and contractors, even if they pay-to-play and expect General Plan updates to be their Rx for even fatter profits. Here are some real reasons why LA urgently...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12925-the-real-reasons-why-la-s-general-plan-must-be-updated

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

  • Is LA Ready to Learn Some Lessons from New York City?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--From the days of Not Yet New York in the 1980s to the present, some Angelenos consider New York City to be the opposite of their vision for Los Angeles. This is understandable because New York City, especially Manhattan, has much...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12911-is-la-ready-to-learn-some-lessons-from-new-york-city

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

  • The LA Times Should School Itself before Preaching about Planning the Future of LA

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is distressing, but hardly surprising, that the Los Angeles Times would use a lead editorial to preach about planning the future of Los Angeles without cracking open the city’s adopted General Plan or mentioning climate change...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12881-the-la-times-should-school-itself-before-preaching-about-planning-the-future-of-la

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

  • Can the Leopard Change Its Spots – At least at LA’s City Hall?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-LA’s March 7 election appeared to be decisive. Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, was soundly defeated. As a result there is no legal mandate to stop the steady flow of pay-to-play mega-projects that the City Council...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12842-can-the-leopard-change-its-spots-at-least-at-la-s-city-hall

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

  • Little Need for WikiLeaks to Reveal City Hall’s Skulduggery

    public improvements in lieu of private real estate deals. Your help is greatly appreciated in all of these efforts. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. Comments and corrections invited...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12792-little-need-for-wikileaks-to-reveal-city-hall-s-skulduggery

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

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

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Both sides of the debate over Measure S have inflated expectations of what their vote will produce on March 7, especially those voting no. This is why I admonish both camps to be careful what they wish for. What yes on S voters...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12765-measure-s-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-especially-if-you-re-voting-no

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

  • Urban Growth Machine Trashes Measure S … with LA Times Support

    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 comments...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12740-urban-growth-machine-trashes-measure-s-with-la-times-support

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

  • Luxury Housing Creates Affordable Housing: Another Free Market Myth

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--It is a serious chore to keep up with the deceptive claims about Measure S. Today I heard that it would cause rents to increase because of supply and demand, while yesterday I heard just the opposite. Supposedly Measure S will...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12722-luxury-housing-creates-affordable-housing-another-free-market-myth

    • 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

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Here’s an election curiosity: Why did the big real estate companies dedicated to keeping pay-to-play for Los Angeles City Council spot-zoning in motion, hire Parke Skelton’s and Michael Shiplock’s Pasadena-based SG&A campaign firm?...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12693-la-s-city-hall-dems-have-become-the-party-of-big-real-estate-it-s-crocodile-tears-for-the-rest-of-us

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

  • Why LA Needs a Strong Planning Process and Measure S is Essential

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-My support for Measure S did not just drop off a turnip truck. It is based on my long career as a city planner. This includes positions in two large urban planning departments, a private planning firm, a small non-profit, and a...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12668-why-la-needs-a-strong-planning-process-and-measure-s-is-essential

    • 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?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Whether LA voters adopt or reject Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, on March 7, the Planning Department will eventually update LA’s General Plan, including the city’s Community Plans. This process has already begun,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12649-city-hall-has-ignored-the-law-and-failed-to-update-the-city-s-general-plan-for-years-why-should-we-trust-them-now

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

  • Major LA Homes Association Endorses Measure S … Here’s Why

    on a daily basis. We attempt to debunk them as quickly as we can. But, if you think we have missed 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...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/component/content/article/12619-major-la-homes-association-endorses-measure-s-here-s-why?catid=360

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Language: *

  • Memo to Mayor Garcetti about Measure S: Please Don’t Give Away the Store

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Mr. Mayor, other than reelection, you have a tough assignment, and it is much more than finding unusual photo ops. You are the mayor of the second largest city in the United States, and one of our planet’s creative capitals. Los...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12569-memo-to-mayor-garcetti-about-measure-s-please-don-t-give-away-the-store

    • 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].)

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12520-which-way-for-la-planned-transit-and-density-through-measure-s-or-the-unplanned-jumble-that-measure-s-opponents-hope-to-maintain

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