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  • LA’s Building Boom: Who Really Benefits?

    spiral of neglect will continue, despite the sparkling new buildings, many opening just in time for the 2028 Olympics. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the Board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Sometimes Connecting the Dots in Los Angeles is Just Too Hard

    of 4,000,000 people in LA and 13 million in our metropolitan area. When there is a reckoning, we know where blame lies. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Not-Very-Green New Deal(s) to Address the Climate Crisis

    with short-lived Mayoral executive documents and innocuous Council motions and resolutions instead of the real thing. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • 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

    a higher quality of life and also reduces the generation of the Green House Gases responsible for the climate crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s 50-Year Break-Up with Comprehensive Planning

    can easily work around required General Plans and implementing zoning ordinances, as they do every day in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles: Home of a Well-Oiled Homelessness Machine

    go a long way in combatting homelessness caused by the gaps between soaring rents and stagnant and declining incomes. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. He serves on...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The NY Times Like the LA Times: Cheerleaders for VooDoo Economics Housing Schemes

    not neighborhood activists who maintain that City Hall policies and programs are the real causes of the housing crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He serves on the Board of...

    • 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...

    • 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

    control, reforming the Ellis Act, and inspecting affordable units to assure they are reserved for low-income renters. (Dick Platkin is a city planner who writes a weekly planning column for CityWatchLA. He worked as a Los Angeles city planner from 1987...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • What Ever Happened to the Blue-Ribbon ‘Los Angeles 2000 – City of the Future’ Report?

    view that allowed so many good things in the LA 2000 – City of the Future report to be flushed down the memory hole. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies in Los Angeles for CityWatchLA. He serves...

    • 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.

    researched legislative assessments provided the analysis I used for this CityWatchLA column on SB 330 and AB 1239. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Debate Over SB 50 Inspires Bigger Fight Over California’s Real Housing Crisis

    and they need to abandon the developer-driven supply-side proposals for programs that have a chance of working. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the Board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • David Ryu Hits a Triple: Exposes Multiple Flaws in the Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan

    must fold the TNP into the forthcoming update of the Wilshire Community Plan, David Ryu will have hit a home run. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the Board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Wall Street on Steroids in Your Backyard: The Full Story on Changes to SB 50

    local representatives in the California State Senate and Assembly to share your criticisms of the draft legislation. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He is on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles will get Worse

    is improved to the point that they an appealing choice for the 85 percent of Angelinos who depend on cars for mobility. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • So Little Time, So Many Tall Tales - To Increase the Profits of Real Estate Investors

    direct SB 50 monitoring, it will be easy to document that SB 50 would make a sustainable California even more remote. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies in Los Angeles. He serves on the board...

    • 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?

    neighborhood, please click on this link to an up-to-date and zoomable map of the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board...

    • 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

    is the link that has the details you need to join the opposition to SB 50. Submit your comments as soon as possible. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Will LA Finally Establish a City Department and Plan to address Climate Change?  Maybe.

    funding, tools, and monitoring program to make a qualitative difference? The public has the answers to these questions. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. He serves on the board...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How City Hall Lying Contributes to Plummeting Trust in Government: An LA Case Study

    listed above. This is why we can expect that trust in government, including local government, will decline further. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local land use controversies for City Watch. He serves on the board of...

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