CITY HALL — Overall traffic at Santa Monica Airport may be down, but neighbors are still riled about noise and they may have a point, according to a consultant who spoke at Monday night’s Airport Commission meeting.
SM PIER — The Pier Restoration Corp. may be in for a makeover pending the results of a study it commissioned last week that will examine the current model used to manage the historic Santa Monica Pier and its finances.
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.
CITYWIDE — Santa Monicans gave an overwhelming thumbs up to the city by the sea, awarding it an A-grade as a good place to live as well as high marks on providing critical city services including emergency response, public safety and environmental responsibility.
The saga of the Saint John’s Health Center parking garage continues. According to its 1998 Development Agreement (DA) with City Hall, Saint John’s was supposed to build a 442 stall subterranean parking garage near its new hospital.
SMO — Residents living in Venice and Mar Vista gathered at the eastern edge of the Santa Monica Airport on Friday to stage an Earth Day rally against the use of leaded fuel by owners of propeller planes that fly over homes nearby.
SMO — The Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution Wednesday declaring its intention to support legislation to close the six flight schools operating at the Santa Monica Airport, as well as make permanent a flight path that would send airplanes over Santa Monica homes.
CITY HALL — Three weeks into the experiment, city officials are working out problems in operation and supply with 100 new high-tech parking meters that not only accept credit cards and coins, but also transmit real-time data to the parking gurus at City Hall.
CITY HALL — Santa Monica attorneys closed the books on a 2010 civil suit for $55,000 after an elderly woman fell and injured herself on a Big Blue Bus.
CITYWIDE — The Santa Monica City Council could make it more difficult to park tall vehicles in parts of the city at its meeting next week. The council will hear a second reading of an ordinance requested by three city departments to post signs prohibiting the parking of vehicles over 5 feet high in
SMO — The Santa Monica Airport has its share of enemies, or at least vehement detractors, but now it can claim to have a group of friends. A new community organization called Friends of the Santa Monica Airport, or FOSMO, formed in November 2010 with the aim of promoting aviation and educating neigh
Last week, Georgina and Marguerita residents told the City Council that City Hall was barking up the wrong tree. Neighbors had received flyers from City Hall advising that the iconic, 100-year-old Canary Island Palm trees that line their streets between Ocean Avenue and 14th Street would be suppleme
