How To Bust A Housing Boom and A Housing Boon
This article originally appeared on Healthy City Local.
I’m sure readers are trembling with anticipation after I ended my last post with this cliffhanger: aside from drastically reducing the advantage that residential development in downtown Santa...
Holiday Volunteer Opportunities in Santa Monica
Via city of Santa Monica website.
Santa Monica is home to many nonprofit organizations that work year-round to provide food and services to our most vulnerable residents. As we head into the holiday season, consider...
Santa Monica City Council Adopts Downtown Community Plan, Remains Divided Over Housing
After nearly six years, Santa Monica has a new plan that will govern land use in the city’s 230-acre downtown through 2030. While the City Council adopted most aspects of the plan unanimously, there...
UC Irvine: Long Beach Ranks No. 1 in Accessibility in SoCal—Because It’s Dense
Photo by Brian Addison. Data and charts courtesy of UCI. This article originally ran on our sister site, Longbeachize.
When it comes to contemporary development, “mixed-use” and, especially if the structure is in an urban center, “transit-oriented”...
City Hall: Clarifying Santa Monica’s AirBnB Rules
Via city of Santa Monica's website.
As part of its continued commitment to preserve and increase housing in Santa Monica, the City Council voted at its June 27, 2017 meeting to ban the use of...
New Plans Revealed for Gehry-Designed Project in Santa Monica
The team behind a proposed Frank Gehry-designed hotel at Santa Monica Boulevard and Ocean Avenue revealed revised plans Thursday night at a well-attended community meeting.
Thursday's meeting was the first public reveal of the new...
Community Voices: YIMBYism and the Cruel Irony of Metropolitan History
The following originally appeared on Streetsblog L.A. It is by David Levitus. Levitus earned his Ph.D. at USC with a focus on the history of cities, policy, and politics in the United States. At NYU, he majored...
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