Tag Archives: los angeles Building and Safety Department

The Antonio to Eric Handoff: LA’s Quality of Life Disaster — Deregulating Planning, Zoning and Building Code Enforcement

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Former LA City Planner Dick Platkin, now Adjunct Instructor of City Planning at USC’s Price School of Social Policy, originally wrote this article on the devastating impact of the merger of LA Planning and Building and Safety Department … Continue reading →

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Whodunit Chapter 14: Who’s Killing My Neighborhood

Posted on April 1, 2009 by

A plea of poverty: “I’m saying is there is no money” Finally, the Day of Reckoning for the people accused of killing my neighborhood — April Fool’s! Thirteen months after Nadya Mahdavi was first cited for construction without a permit … Continue reading →

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