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# Not feeling the good vibes
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/not-feeling-the-good-vibes-editor/
- Published: 2006-06-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:20:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Catherine Ewing Santa Monica*

Having been born in Santa Monica and back living in Santa Monica more than 20 years now, good vibes indeed may be growing among random Los Angeles county visitors and tourists. However, the residents are constantly fighting massive traffic jams, car exhaust, limos, emergency vehicle sirens and foot traffic that looks as dense as any New York City street I’ve pushed my way through. Santa Monica is no longer a contained, lovely beach city — hardly.

Developers greedily suck up the little space that is left downtown with blocks of luxury living condos, creating more density, clogged with the car exhaust of people perpetually looking for that elusive parking space.

Apparently, the Santa Monica City Council is enjoying the perks and profits of a boomtown that happens to have an ocean attached to it.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 14, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061406.pdf?ref=smdp.com)