SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown's finance department said 27 local governments have failed to pay or have underpaid the state after the governor tried to sweep up billions
CITY HALL — A number of popular projects throughout Santa Monica will be put on hold or downsized so that City Hall can balance the loss of its Redevelopment Agency with
CITY HALL — City officials have begun circulating an update to a 26-year-old program that they expect will nearly quadruple the amount of money raised from developers to expand the Downtown
COLORADO AVE — The local face of the development group trying to replace the Village Trailer Park with condos, apartments and affordable housing has signaled his desire to explore a "
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Construction projects at Lincoln Middle School are expected to run $4 million over the original budget, forcing the school district to dip into bond program reserves to make
CITY HALL — Every second and fourth Tuesday, the City Council sits down with a stack of staff reports to debate and decide the issues facing Santa Monica.
Seated directly opposite
CITY HALL — City officials turn
ed over $12.6 million to the Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller to comply with a new state law governing the death of redevelopment agencies that
I've often wondered why all the new developments in Santa Monica are so distasteful and disliked by the citizenry. Maybe all these so-called benefits, fees and monetary payments
BERGAMOT STATION — A major redevelopment of the former Papermate site previously scheduled for review in June will now be put off until the beginning of 2013, and a local anti-development group is taking credit.
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.
CITY HALL — An attorney retained by a local community group took a scathing view of an environmental impact report for the proposed Bergamot Transit Village, calling its analysis “shoddy.
