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LUVE: What We Don’t Need Now

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This article first appeared on The Healthy City Local. When voters submit an initiative to enact a law, Section 9212 of the California Elections Code authorizes the relevant legislative body to commission a report analyzing the...

Moving Goal Posts and New Players: The Plight of Anti-Development Politicians

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When it comes to the goals of the anti-development side, as soon as one goal is achieved, a new, more extreme goal is created. After Tuesday night’s City Council meeting Councilmember Sue Himmelrich might understandably...

Social Justice Group, CLUE, Says No to L.U.V.E.

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The social and economic justice organization, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), recently decided to oppose the Residocracy-backed Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative, citing concerns it would unduly burden low-income people. Over...

Citing Impact on Affordable Housing, Nonprofit Housing Association Opposes Residocracy’s L.U.V.E. Initiative

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Citing concerns that the anti-development Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative would only exacerbate Santa Monica’s housing affordability crisis, the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH) voiced their opposition in a letter to...

Housers, United By LUVE

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This article originally ran on The Healthy City Local. The proponents of LUVE know that they have a problem politically with the housing issue. In their statements and writings in support, they deny that LUVE...

City Council Calls for Study of No-Growth L.U.V.E. Initiative

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The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to have city staff study potential impacts of the Residocracy-backed no-growth Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative before making a final decision next month about...

Coming Up: L.U.V.E. Goes Before the Council, Plan Airport Park Expansion, and Spoke Hosts...

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This week, the City Council will consider what to do with the no-growth L.U.V.E. initiative, planning begins on Santa Monica's newest park, and Santa Monica Spoke hosts "Dinner & Bikes + Cupcakes." City Council Looks...

Santa Monica League of Women Voters Oppose “Misleading” Residocracy-backed L.U.V.E. Initiative

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The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica on Saturday announced its opposition to the Residocracy-backed anti-growth ballot measure that will go before voters in November, joining a growing list of opponents to the...

No-Growth “L.U.V.E.” Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot

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The so-called “Land Use Voter Empowerment” (L.U.V.E.) initiative, which would require a vote on nearly every new building over two stories, has qualified to be on the November ballot, Santa Monica Next has learned. The...

LUVE’s Labour’s Lost

Residocracy wants to reduce traffic—the time price of accessing Santa Monica—by limiting the number of people who live here. That’s like trying to reduce the cost of the box seats behind home plate by...

Editorial: Santa Monica College Bond Should Include Money for Student Housing

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Last week, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported that the Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees is considering its own ballot initiative to be placed on the fall ballot. The $295 million bond...

A Note on Next’s Opposition to the LUVE Initiative

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There has been a lot of discussion about a meme we posted last week as part of our editorial encouraging Santa Monica residents not to sign the petition to put the LUVE proposal on this fall’s...

Editorial: The LUVE Initiative is No Way to Run A City

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At the moment, there is a group of committed no-growth activists circulating a petition to put an initiative on the ballot that would effectively make it impossible to build anything over two or three...

No-Growth Ballot Initiative Goes “Too Far,” Say Santa Monica City Councilmembers

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The conservative no-growth group, Residocracy, has begun gathering signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot that would require nearly all new projects taller than 32 feet to be approved by a popular...
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