Richard Bloom Talks Cap and Trade, Local Issues with Streetsblog
Assemblymember Richard Bloom sat down with Streetsblog's Melanie Curry last week for an interview about budgeting and the state's cap-and-trade funding schemes. As is often the case with Bloom, the discussion strayed into local...
Coming Up: Help Santa Monica Combat Homelessness, Voting Continues for 2015 Streetsies, Big Blue...
Welcome to 2016, everyone! We hope you were able to enjoy some downtime before coming into the new year. As we get ready for an exciting new year, we're still want to hear from you...
#DamienTalks 42: Sam Tepperman-Gelfant and the Governor’s Housing Proposal
Today, #DamienTalks with Sam Tepperman-Gelfant, a senior staff attorney with Public Advocates about Governor Jerry Brown’s legislative language to streamline the environmental process for certain types of housing development.
Public Advocates was one of the...
Gruber: Turns Out That When It Comes To Local Politics Santa Monica is not...
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author's permission.
In the last couple of posts I’ve been trying, mostly by means of rereading Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, to put anti-development politics...
Coming Up: Women in Politics Panel, Stories in Tongva Park, Future of the Pier,...
This week, the Santa Monica Jaycees have a panel on women in politics, the future of the Santa Monica Pier is up for discussion, there will be a family-friendly story time in Tongva Park,...
Santa Monica Green-lights Two Related Expo-Adjacent Housing Projects Downtown
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...
Earthquake Retrofitting Ordinance Goes Before Santa Monica City Council Tuesday
The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday will consider a comprehensive earthquake retrofit ordinance that could affect more than 17,000 apartments or condos in more than 2,000 buildings throughout the city.
The Los Angeles Times called...
What Does 2016 Hold for Santa Monica?
Inspired by our friends at Los Angeles Streetsblog, who recently previewed the upcoming big livable streets events for 2016, we thought we’d take a look forward at Santa Monica’s future. At least to those...
Op-Ed: Silicon Beach Misses Chance to Curb Rising Rents
For being the envy of entrepreneurs the world over and the vanguards of the global economy, the tech superstars of Silicon Beachers are oddly oblivious to what goes on in their own backyards. Assuming,...
New City Council Passed Rule Will Require All New Single-Family Houses to be “Zero...
Via City Press Release:
The Santa Monica City Council voted this week to approve an ordinance requiring all new single-family construction in the City of Santa Monica to be zero-net energy (ZNE), the first of...
Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan Wends Its Way to Final Approval
The final series of public hearings on the Downtown Santa Monica Community Plan kicked off this week with back-to-back City Council meetings.
On Monday night, more than 150 people showed up for a marathon session...
Carter Rubin named to Santa Monica Housing Commission
Last night the City Council named Santa Monica Next Advisory Board Member Carter Rubin to the City's Housing Commission. The Housing Commission advises the City Council and Housing Authority on issues related to the...
Governor’s Budget Revision: Nothing New for Transportation
This article originally ran on Streetsblog California.
Governor Brown issued his May revision of the state budget proposal, and in terms of transportation, it’s pretty much the same story we told in January. That is, he...
Editorial: To Help End Homelessness in Los Angeles County Vote Yes on H, Tell...
Every night, tens of thousands of people bed down in shelters, in their cars, or on the street. The causes are myriad. Some are homeless because of bad luck. Some are trying to escape...
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