CITY HALL – Palisades Park will look different this December now that erecting dioramas depicting the birth of Jesus Christ, a tradition in Santa Monica for over half a century, is no longer allowed there.
CITY HALL — The City Council gave preliminary approval to a taxi cab company that’s looking to break into Santa Monica by buying up an existing franchise holder.
CITY HALL — City officials are exploring a way to monitor carwashes they contract with to ensure that owners pay their employees fair wages and respect workers’ rights.
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.
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.
CITYWIDE — Santa Monica’s environmental efforts were recognized April 17 when City Hall received the 2012 Siemens Sustainable Community Award in the midsize community category.
CITY HALL — Decision makers and the community need more information, and earlier, if they’re going to get appropriate concessions out of developers bent on building projects that exceed normal zoning rules, the City Council said Tuesday.
CITY HALL – The City Council threw its weight behind a movement to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision which allowed unlimited corporate money into public elections.
As predicted last week, the City Council donned one of its many costumes to play the roll of Unite Here! Local 11 union negotiator and approve an oversized hotel for the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Seventh Street in return for wage concessions from the developer.
CITY HALL – The City Council voted Tuesday night to move forward with a hotel development slated for 710 Wilshire Blvd. that came attached to a controversial provision promising a wage opposed both by the business and workers’ rights communities.
CITY HALL — A dual measure before the City Council Tuesday to support legal protections for the environment and end corporate personhood got a split response from elected officials who enthusiastically supported a healthy environment but watered down the call to restrict rights to living beings.
CITY HALL — The City Council delighted environmental activists Tuesday when it embraced the idea of codifying the rights of people, natural communities and ecosystems to exist in and be protected by local law.
