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Eternal Meadow at Santa Monica’s Woodlawn Cemetery Offers Greener Burial Options

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Above the surface, cemeteries are serene expanses of green, with plenty of trees and flowers. Below ground, however, America’s cemeteries are environmental disasters. Buried along with the deceased are toxic embalming fluids, metals from...

Santa Monica’s Earthquake Retrofit Requirements Could Impact More than 17,000 Units

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Santa Monica released a list Tuesday of more than 17,000 apartments or condos in more than 2,000 buildings that will require further study under the city’s new earthquake retrofit requirements. The list also included commercial...

Santa Monica’s Open Street Celebration Could Become Annual Affair

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Santa Monica's first open streets event -- Coast -- in June 2016 was such a success, it could become an annual fall event. According to an information item posted to the city's website at the...

A New State Report Explains Why Your Rent Is So High, Offers A Solution

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It’s no secret that Santa Monica is one of the most expensive places to live in California, a reality that anyone who has tried to move to the city or even within it knows...

Santa Monica Green-lights Two Related Expo-Adjacent Housing Projects Downtown

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This week, the City Council and Planning Commission approved two related Expo-adjacent housing projects that will bring more than 300 new homes -- 64 of which will rent to lower-income households -- to Santa...

Santa Monica Loses Another Opportunity for Much-Needed Housing Growth

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Santa Monica has a housing problem: there’s not enough of it. The city’s population has seen a net increase of less than 10,000 people since 1960. It’s clear to anyone who has tried to move...

Opponents of Santa Monica Airport Gear Up for Protest

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Activists opposed to the Santa Monica Airport will hold a rally on Saturday, February 4 to protest JetSuiteX's plans for running commercial flights out the nearly century-old airfield. The protest will take place in the parking...

Santa Monica Moves to Terminate Routine Agreement with Federal Immigration Enforcement Agency

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Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole sent a letter Tuesday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), terminating a routine and cost-sharing agreement with the federal agency. The letter , which was addressed to ICE and...

Bogus Study Claims Inflated Prices for Average Santa Monica Rents

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A recent post at a website called Apartment Guide has caught a bit of attention on the Westside after it named Santa Monica the most expensive place to rent in the country. Apartment Guide made...

Workers Compensated Nearly $100,000 in Settlement with Santa Monica Shore Hotel

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Three employees of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica have been compensated nearly $100,000 in back pay as part of a settlement of a complaint filed by the General Counsel’s Office of the National...

Downtown Santa Monica Goes Digital in Community Outreach Effort

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Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. wants to know what you love -- and what you don’t -- about the beachside city’s thriving urban core. To that end, the nonprofit that manages Santa Monica’s downtown area is...

Can We Cool It with the Ballot Box Planning Measures Already?

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Last night, Los Angeles voters soundly beat Measure S, a poorly-conceived and draconian attempt to control the city’s planning process at the ballot box. The defeat of Measure S comes only a few months...

Santa Monica to Celebrate Parks Day on February 25

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Via the City of Santa Monica. On Saturday, February 25, 2017, the City of Santa Monica will host Parks Day, Come Play! a community event celebrating: The grand opening of Ishihara Park, a new 2.35-acre...

Governor Brown to City Governments: It’s On You to Make California Affordable Again

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Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, released earlier this week, has some good news and some bad news for housing in California. California remains in the throes of the worst housing shortage in generations and Brown’s...

Mapping the Culture of Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood

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The colorful mural painted on two long concrete walls under the Santa Monica Freeway along the Stewart Street underpass in Santa Monica tells the story of the Pico neighborhood surrounding it. The mural was created...
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