Adaptive re-use. Re-purposing. Remodeling. Addition. Re-habilitating. Restoring. All these phrases are terms that describe breathing new life into older buildings. Some developers and building industry professionals talk of buildings as
Last Tuesday, City Council listened to some 140 passionate citizens express their opinions about modifications to zoning codes required by the city's updated master plan. The following night,
The people have spoken. Then City Council spoke for even longer.
On Wednesday night, council debated 33 highlights that have emerged in the formation of the Zoning Ordinance, which will
Finally, after dozens of meetings about the updated Zoning Ordinance, the Planning Commission can get back to doing what it loves: hearing appeals of decisions made by the Architectural Review
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Two letters have been written in the past week about bicycles riding on the sidewalk. Of course, they should not be there, but they have no other safe place
Construction of an ArcLight movie theater on the third level of the Santa Monica Place mall is underway but plans for a second theater, with 14 screens and about 2,
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Santa Monica's one-party, one-issue leaders have sold the soul of the city in their manic drive to build low-income housing. I agree a city should help provide
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The Zoning Ordinance articulates technical rules for land use, but also reinforces the broad policy priorities of our city. It will be in place for the next several decades,
One of the most pressing questions facing us as we consider our first comprehensive zoning update in 30 years is whether we will truly be able to preserve Santa Monica&
What do you call the Santa Monica Museum of Art if it moves to Century City? Apparently, SMMoA Unbound.
That's what the three-decade-old museum will be called when
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles previewing City Council's reviewing of the Zoning Ordinance Update. The articles will focus on the
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Kudos to Dee Cappelli for a wonderful letter. The writer puts the responsibility precisely where it belongs: on both the cyclists who flout the law because they don'
