DOWNTOWN — The few people who use the Downtown and Beach rides to travel to the Civic Center and Annenberg Community Beach house will have to find another way to get around next month.
The watershed political event of the last quarter century happened Nov. 4, 2008, when voters defeated a ballot measure to temporarily curb commercial development called Measure T or the “Residents Initiative to Fight Traffic (RIFT).
SMMUSD HDQTRS Students in the Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District will be getting to school a little differently this month. May marks the school district’s Bike It! Walk It! days, during which students are encouraged to come to school via bicycles, scooters, skateboards or sneakers instead
MALIBU — A three-judge Court of Appeal panel on Thursday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that voided an agreement between the California Coastal Commission and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to allow overnight camping in Malibu.
CITY HALL — Tenants could see their rents increase by 1.54 percent, or $26 a month, under a new formula approved by the Rent Control Board Thursday that landlords are calling “black magic.
CITY HALL — In an attempt to cut down on air traffic around Santa Monica Airport (SMO), city officials are proposing to pay flight schools to take some of their lessons elsewhere.
CITY HALL – The City Attorney’s Office announced a $39.5 million settlement with the Boeing Corporation to clean toxins out of local groundwater left by the former Douglas Aircraft Co.
CITY HALL — The City Attorney’s Office announced a $39.5 million settlement with the Boeing Corporation to clean contaminants out of the water in the Olympic well field left behind by the former Douglas Aircraft Co.
CITY HALL — Christmas may not be in the air, but controversy is. A nonprofit law group that represents religious interests released a proposal Tuesday for a system that would allow displays for only December holidays to be erected in Palisades Park during the traditional holiday season.
BROADWAY — A business park on the east end of Santa Monica will go through its fourth name change in two decades now that anchor tenant Yahoo! will no longer have its moniker on the building.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
According to all my sources in and outside of City Hall, everyone agrees that Santa Monica’s major problems are traffic and development. We should be relieved they’re not crime and public safety.
