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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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Beware of Intended Consequences: What Critics Say About Proposed Hollywood Community Plan

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Dick Platkin, a former LA city planner, writes regularly about planning issues with an insider’s insight and a resident’s concern. He is now a planning consultant and board member of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, and can be reached at rhplatkin@yahoo.com.   … Continue reading →

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Real L.A. News from the Virtual World: Parking Rules, Incumbents’ Edge and Antonio’s Angst

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Dept. of Neighborhood Destruction: Parking Rules Division Here’s the announcement from the LA City Planning Department of a public hearing at 2 p.m. Wednesday March 30 in City Hall Room 1010 of proposed changes to city parking requirements — rules … Continue reading →

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How City Hall Plans to Destroy Your Neighborhood and Quality of Life

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Steven Leigh Morris, in a comprehensive article just posted at laweekly.com that will be in Thursday’s edition, penetrates the complexities of the radical changes under way to city planning rules — changes that are “are shrouded in mystery and yet … 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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Three Questions for the City Council — Will They Deign to Answer?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

!. Do you support or oppose the giveaway of more than $4 million in the public’s money for the questionable office project by a questionable developer at 1601 N. Vine St. in Hollywood? 2. Do you support or oppose the … 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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Even Whitewash Can’t Hide the Truth: How County Supervisors Improperly Influence Planning Decisions

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

The charges leveled by fired LA County Planning chief Bruce McClendon a year ago got credence from a just completed outside consultant’s audit of alleged improper influence in decisions on development by Supervisors and their staffs. It’s how politics works … Continue reading →

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Jane Usher Speaks Out on Billboard Blight

Posted on March 16, 2009 by

Editor’s Note: Former LA City Planning Commission President Jane Usher has submitted a written statement (Usher-billboards1.rtf) in advance of Wednesday morning’s public hearing on a proposed new sign ordinance for the city. She also released this oral statement she will … Continue reading →

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