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The Death Knell for L.A. — The ‘Anything Goes’ Plan to Densify Hollywood at Taxpayer Expense

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Of all the crimes committed against the people by City Hall, the greatest is what they have done to the city’s neighborhoods and the quality of life – and what they are now planning to do. For that, they deserve … Continue reading →

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Fighting Back: Stop City Hall’s Plan to Blight L.A. to Profit Developers

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

The chaos at the Department of Water and Power is bleeding the town dry with rates going to soar like never before and far too much of the money going into the bank accounts of its workers and union treasury … Continue reading →

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Fighting Back: Stop City Hall’s Plan to Blight L.A. to Profit Developers

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

The chaos at the Department of Water and Power is bleeding the town dry with rates going to soar like never before and far too much of the money going into the bank accounts of its workers and union treasury … Continue reading →

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Blade Runner City Is Becoming a Reality

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

Day by day for years, the policies of the City of Los Angeles have gradually brought to life the dark, dystopian vision of LA as “Blade Runner City” — a toxic town with giant digital billboards on towering skyscrapers flashing … Continue reading →

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Death Blow to LA’s Middle Class

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

For decades, City Hall experimented with a bizarre form of municipal socialism, enriching the rich, impoverishing the poor and driving away the middle class. The 2000 census showed that white flight in the 1980s had become middle-class flight, cutting across … Continue reading →

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Trust in God — Not the Planning Department: Michael LoGrande’s First Big Test

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

A city’s General Plan lays out the broad guidelines for all new developments that are then refined through community plans that provide detailed rules block by block so that residents and developers know exactly what is allowed and what isn’t. … Continue reading →

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Department of No Comment: Central City Assn. Loves LoGrande

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

The Central City Association that boasts with justification that it has “L.A.’s most powerful rolodex” loves the appointment of Michael LoGrande as City Planning Director. Here’s what the CCA email newsletter has to say about it: At the invitation of … Continue reading →

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Who Is Michael LoGrande? Insights of a Planning Expert Who Supervised Him

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s nomination of Michael LoGrande, chief zoning administrator, to succeed tGail Goldberg as Director of the L.A. Department of City Planning won praise from pro-development interests and condemnation from many planning experts There was no nation search or … Continue reading →

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Michael LoGrande, Planning Director — Hold Him to His Words or Pay the Price

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

Los Angeles — the city of sprawl and no planning or bad planning — long ago became a city of limits, a city that had filled its vast open spaces with homes, businesses and factories and wore out its infranstructure. … Continue reading →

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