Six Years of Process, and Then… Boom!
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
At the City Council meeting last Tuesday night on Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan (DCP) the ironies abounded. As planning staff has told us many times, the...
Community Voices: Why Is Everyone Else Traffic?
This post originally appeared on the blog of local community activist and organizer Luke Klipp. It was republished on Santa Monica Next's sister site, Longbeachize. Klipp serves as a Metro Board Deputy to Long Beach Mayor...
The Downtown Community Plan On Its Final Stage
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
After, in words taken from the staff report, “nearly six years in development” (not too much longer than it takes to get approval to build an apartment...
Op Ed: The Destruction of Bergamot Arts Center is Fake News
Bergamot Arts Center has been a vital part of the arts fabric of Santa Monica since its inception in the 1990s. On Tuesday night, the Santa Monica City Council will be asked to look at...
An Inconvenient Truth: Climate Change Takes A Backseat to Slow Growth in Santa Monica’s...
The purpose of plans is to help communities confront and prepare for their future. On preparing for a future with climate change, the downtown plan is an utter failure. Instead of focusing on the...
The Downtown Community Plan and the Lingering Impacts of the Great Recession
The question I ended my post with on Saturday was why would Santa Monica enact a Downtown Community Plan (DCP) that makes it easier to build commercial development than housing? Keep in mind that...
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...
Downtown Santa Monica Ain’t Broke
This piece originally ran on Healthy City Local.
There are good ideas in the Downtown Community Plan (DCP): ideas about the role of Santa Monica’s downtown, about nurturing community in “our town” with more and better...
What Would Arcadia Do?
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
Let me begin my further ruminations and fulminations on the Downtown Community Plan (DCP) with a quibble, namely the failure to include in the DCP’s historical background...
Downtown Santa Monica: Where It Doesn’t Take A Village (With Lots of Pictures!)
The following post originally appeared on Healthy City Local.
It’s back! The latest (and promised final!) version of Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan (DCP), is being dragged through the Planning Commission, with an ultimate destination of the...
California Coastal Commission’s New Leadership: Fresh Breeze Promising Enhanced Partnership and Collaboration
Via Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole's blog, The Long View.
There is a dynamic and positive new tone coming from the California Coastal Commission.
The California Coastal Commission has had just five leaders since it was...
Viva Cesar Chavez
In commemoration of Cesar Chavez Day, Santa Monica Next will be taking the day off from publishing. Below is a short piece by long-time Santa Monica activist Ernie Powell about his experience working with Cesar...
Community Voices: It’s Time to Make Santa Monica’s Streets Safer
In the past few weeks, Santa Monica has experienced five more violent pedestrian crashes and almost as many deaths, reminding us all that we are unsafe in our city, whether crossing the street for...
Community Voices: Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer on the Deaths of Three Young Community...
The following is a letter from Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer addressing the recent deaths of three young people in the community.
I received the devastating news of the tragic circumstances that led to the...
Community Voices: Santa Monica High School Principal Addresses Recent Student Death
The following letter is by Santa Monica High School principal Dr. Antonio Shelton to the Santa Monica High School community regarding the recent death of a ninth grade student at the school.
Dear Santa Monica High...
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