There were a number of community meetings last Monday night.
The "Chain Reaction" sculpture and the old Downtown post office building were on the Landmarks Commission's
The most important City Council endorsements were made in July when members of the powerful Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights (SMRR) organization endorsed planning commissioner Ted Winterer and council
The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to close the "old" Santa Monica post office on Fifth Street at Arizona Avenue sometime this fall. Services will be relocated
The first of what will probably be a couple of clandestine "citizen" or "neighbor" groups has emerged two months before the election — Santa Monicans for Responsible
Last Monday, ("Tidying up loose ends," My Write) I wrote about the new development planned for theaging VillageTrailer Parkat2930 Colorado Ave. and suggested that developer Marc Luzzattoredesign his
On July 23, ("City Hall's gravy train derails development," My Write, page 4) I wrote about the new development planned for theVillageTrailer Parkat2930 Colorado Ave. The
Much has appeared in the local press the past few weeks about the chicanerysurrounding the Wilshire-Montana Neighborhood Association (Wilmont) elections. But,Wilmont is small potatoescompared to the flim-flammery perpetrated bySanta
OnWednesday, Aug. 1, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Educationwill consider placing a $385 million school construction/improvement bond on the November ballot.
The measure wouldcost the average
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
Last week, I left town for a long weekend and missed a lot of action — some good, some bad and some wacky. The good Texas developer Hines has postponed an upcoming Planning Commission review of its proposed Bergamot Transit Village Center until year’s end or early 2013.
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).
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.
