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

    As a result, their up-zones would exist in perpetuity, regardless of their actual, as opposed to imagined, impacts. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any comments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • CA Senator Wiener’s Resurrection Program Falling Flat

    suggestion. SB 50, which is actually worse than SB 827, deserves its same fate: a quick dispatch to the round file. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. He also serves on the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • METRO’s Left Hand Knoweth not what its Right Hand Doeth

    truly interested in promoting transit, not real estate speculation, these options are at his or her beck and call. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on planning issues for CityWatch. Please send your comments, corrections,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Why ‘There’s Just No Money’ Claims are So Unconvincing

    nest. Is there a way out of this maze? Yes. Teachers unions, like the UTLA, have found the path and are ready to lead. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send questions,...

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

    commercial property owners – like the Purple Line TNP -- before the Department of Justice eventually lowers the boom. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. Please send your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA City Hall’s Version of the Green New Deal Tainted by Corruption Accusations

    If we wait for a City Hall climate epiphany, based on the latest climate science reports, it will be too late. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on planning issues for CityWatch. Please send your comments, corrections, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Curious Facts about Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Los Angeles Uncovered by CSUN Planning Students

    property owners anxious for City Hall to grant them permanent, highly lucrative, and totally tax free up-zoning gifts. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies. Please send any comments, corrections,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • How to Create a Housing Crisis in 12 Easy Steps

    Like climate change, the housing crisis is manmade, and we know who the perpetrators are and what they did. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner, who reports of local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any questions,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Plakin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • The Blinding Light of Real Estate Super-Profits Hits LA, Too

    If done right, it will force these real estate investors to follow carefully developed and rigorously monitored plans. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who now reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. Please send any comments or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Scott Wiener, Pied Piper for the New Urban Renewal

    demise of the new urban renewal, so it can join the old renewal on library shelves reserved for failed urban programs. (Dick Platkin is former Los Angeles city planner, who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Letter from UN4LA: Why the Purple Line Extension TNP Won’t Work

    Wilshire Community Plan is updated. Attachments, expanding this letter, can be found at http://un4la.com/blog.html. -- Dick Platkin, CityWatchLA columnist and UN4LA Board Member. UN4LA BOARD Casey Maddren, President Grace Yoo, Treasurer Kim Lamorie,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • I.F. Stone: “All Governments Lie.”

    that are the building blocks of local government deception. This column is dedicated to both groups of Angelinos. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local city planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA City Hall’s 1-2 Punch Against its Own Residents

    of Administrative Provisions / Amendment” is properly fixed before it tiptoes into the City’s formal adoption process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles City Planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Two Los Angeles Nominees for the Revived Dubious Achievement Awards

    on METRO’s many web sites, he who pays the piper picks the “build, baby, build” tune before the next financial crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • LA’s Parallel Universes are on a Collision Course

    prevent the two parallel universes from smashing into each other, we can control the pace and nature of the collision. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Why Local Residents Turn Blue Over the Purple Line Up-zoning Scheme?

    would adopt and implement it precede and remain separate from the forthcoming update of the Wilshire Community Plan. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any questions...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Five Myths Accelerating LA’s Race to the Bottom

    whose views are based on reality, not myths they use to justify public policies that serve their benefactors. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for City Watch. Please send any questions or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Why are WIMBYS in the Public’s Crosshairs? 

    move, they will provide the rest of us with previously obscured information about their true identities and motives. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatchLA. Please send your...

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