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  • Fact Checking ‘News’ Articles that Shill for Real Estate Speculation in LA

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--By now we have all encountered news services, like Politico, that fact check politicians during the election campaign. Well, this week I am offering a similar service to CityWatch readers. I have fact checked three recent “news”...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11915-fact-checking-news-articles-that-shill-for-real-estate-speculation-in-la

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

  • Gridlock: Not New to LA

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles still has the worst traffic congestion of any major city in the United States. This is old news to most of us (see photo above), but to finally address this gridlock, we need to better...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11876-gridlock-not-new-to-la

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

  • Ignorance is Bliss: Everybody Talks about Development, Few Know What It Is

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-A reporter’s question about real estate trends in Los Angeles led me to ask and hopefully answer two questions. Q: What do we mean by “development?” A: Development includes the entire built environment. It is not strictly private...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11840-ignorance-is-bliss-everybody-talks-about-development-few-know-what-it-is

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

  • Welcome to LA, Where Real Estate Speculation meets Squeaky Wheel Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Planning a large city like Los Angeles might be complicated, but it is not rocket science. In fact, the State of California outlines the process in detail through its periodically updated General Plan Guidelines, the latest draft of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11814-welcome-to-la-where-real-estate-speculation-meets-squeaky-wheel-planning

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

  • How to Empower the Citizenry: Try a Little Respect!

    bankruptcy will help them, us, and our children...how? 2) As fellow CityWatch contributor and Planner-Extraordinaire Dick Platkin recently opined, there are a few darned good reasons why we need a Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, and legal efforts,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11785-how-to-empower-the-citizenry-try-a-little-respect

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Alpern
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Editor’s Memo: Flip-Flopper-in-Chief

    You would think by now that Los Angeles would have some pretty powerful neighborhoods. Former city planner Dick Platkin reminds us that there’s considerable difference between empowerment and power. No vote, no power, he says. LA has experienced years...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11776-editor-s-memo-flip-flopper-in-chief

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Draper
    • Category: WORLD WATCH
    • Language: *

  • If You Have Power, You Don’t Need ‘Empowerment’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you want to understand the deeper politics of empowerment, especially when it comes to Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles, please read on. This is the political essence of empowerment: no one who has power bothers to become...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11766-if-you-have-power-you-don-t-need-empowerment

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

  • Cooking Up Fake Support: How Big Real Estate Manufactures Consent

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Big real estate interests, such as developers of shopping centers and high-rise complexes, do not leave things to chance. The only difference between them and Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Finance is that Big Real Estate mostly...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11729-cooking-up-fake-support-how-big-real-estate-manufactures-consent

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

  • Same Old Same Old: Proposed La Cienega Luxury High-rise is Oblivious to it Surroundings

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Mega-developer Rick Caruso’s proposed 21-story luxury high-rise apartment complex at the intersection of LaCienega and Burton Way is a city planning accident waiting to happen. It also similar to the three nearby Miracle Mile...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11701-same-old-same-old-proposed-la-cienega-luxury-high-rise-is-oblivious-to-it-surroundings

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

  • Editor’s Memo: In the Eye of the Beholder

    CITYWATCH TODAY—Rick Caruso and Dick Platkin disagree. Caruso is a builder. He conceived and built the popular Grove and at the time there were those who thought his vision was a mismatch for the neighborhood. Adjacent to the Original Farmer’s Market...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11689-editor-s-memo-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Draper
    • Category: WORLD WATCH
    • Language: *

  • Mayor Garcetti Pressed to End Overdevelopment … Leonardo DiCaprio Backs Neighborhood Integrity Initiative

    board, UN4LA, Hollywood Joaquin Phoenix, award-winning actor and activist Chris Pine, award-winning actor and activist Dick Platkin, former Los Angeles city planner; and adjunct instructor, USC Richard Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles, Brentwood...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11658-mayor-garcetti-pressed-to-end-overdevelopment-leonardo-dicaprio-backs-neighborhood-integrity-initiative

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Preserve LA
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LACMA’s Controversial Expansion Plan: Long on Hype, Short on Context

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you want to dive into critical discussions about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA’s) makeover, designed by Peter Zumthor, the world is your oyster. Just Google it, and for hours you can immerse yourself in...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11656-lacma-s-controversial-expansion-plan-long-on-hype-short-on-context

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

  • Neighborhood Integrity: For the Sake of All Angelenos

    back? Hence we have the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, with all sorts of volunteer neighborhood advocates like Dick Platkin and others weighing in. I also again call for a new part of LA City government where LA citizens can go to inquire as to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11641-neighborhood-integrity-for-the-sake-of-all-angelenos

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Alpern
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Speculation: The Achilles Heel of LA’s ‘Business-Friendly’ Zoning and Environmental Deregulation

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles there are now so many programs and proposals to deregulate zoning and environmental regulations, all hiding behind a “business friendly” cover story of promoting affordable housing, that it can make your head spin....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11624-speculatation-the-achilles-heel-of-la-s-business-friendly-zoning-and-environmental-deregulation

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

  • California! Eye-Balling the Lesser Evil Up Close: No Climate Change Advantage with Dems in Charge

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Three things predictably happen in years divisible by four. 1) If you were born on February 29, you celebrate your real birthday. 2) We watch the spectacle of the summer Olympics. 3) We are endlessly subjected to lesser-evil...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11579-california-eye-balling-the-lesser-evil-up-close-no-climate-change-advantage-with-dems-in-charge

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

  • City Hall’s Great Conundrum: Getting Developers to Build Affordable Housing … Like Getting Blood from a Stone

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-We have all heard the expression “getting blood from a stone.” That is the conundrum facing City Hall’s efforts to solve LA’s housing crisis through private investment. It isn’t really working, and the City’s half-hearted efforts...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11544-city-hall-s-great-conundrum-getting-developers-to-build-affordable-housing-like-getting-blood-from-a-stone

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

  • Lies and Mansionizers: Spinning Some Wild Yarns about LA’s Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Sometimes it is necessary to be as frank as possible to communicate a point, and this is such a time. It is hard to find anything like a legislative threat to someone’s business model to bring out his or her inner-scoundrel. In this...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11499-lies-and-mansionizers-spinning-some-wild-yarns-about-la-s-housing-crisis

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

  • One More ‘Last Stand’ against Mansionization in Los Angeles!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The City Planning Commission hearing on amendments to the two citywide mansionization ordinances – the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance (BMO) and the Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BHO) -- took place on Thursday, July 14, 2016. To...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11462-one-more-last-stand-against-mansionization-in-los-angeles

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

  • Are LA’s Community Plan Updates Ready for “Unexpected” Bumps in the Road?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In their forced march to promote large, speculative real estate projects, LA’s elected and appointed officials have committed themselves to update LA’s 35 community plans over the next decade. Their public argument is quite simple;...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11412-are-la-s-community-plan-updates-ready-for-unexpected-bumps-in-the-road

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

  • Lessons from Beverly Grove’s Successful Fight against McMansions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-On July 14, 2016, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission will consider proposed amendments to the Baseline and Hillside Mansionization Ordinances. As explained in previous City Watch articles, a unanimously adopted City Council...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11379-lessons-from-beverly-grove-s-successful-fight-against-mcmansions

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