Last week, the City Council approved $46.8 million in redevelopment funds for renovation of the 53-year-old Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Problem is the Civic is out of date and no amount of renovation short of a tear-down and rebuild will fix it.
Last week, I wrote that City Hall was trying to determine a legal way to share revenues with the schools from a half cent increase in the sales and use tax (Measures Y and YY) approved by voters last fall.
Deja-vu. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District may float another parcel tax and/or construction bond proposition next election. The Board of Education on Thursday discussed reconvening the district’s citizen scoping committee and began the process of evaluating parcel tax and bond proposal
Tuesday night, the City Council reviewed restrictions on commercial street signage and suggested changes including banning portable sidewalk signs on Main Street and other commercial streets.
What happens when you get a parking ticket you think you didn’t deserve? You could pay the fine and chalk it up to a “bad day,” or you could contest it.
Former mayor Paul Rosenstein wrote a letter to this newspaper ("Let them lease,” April 27, Page 4) and to at least one online news service taking issue with my position that the Planning Commission should not give the owner/operators of the Yahoo! Center carte-blanch approval to lease out so called
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.
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
You would’ve thought it was the Fourth of July the way fireworks were flying at a meeting held at the Main Library last Tuesday evening. The controversy surrounded a modification to the Saint John’s Health Center’s 1998 development agreement (DA) with City Hall.
Another major development proposal has popped up on the heels of the disastrous Bergamot Transit Village Center business park development proffered by Texas mega-developer Hines for the former Paper Mate property at Olympic Boulevard and 26th Street.
The City Council earlier this week wrestled with the Bergamot Transit Village Center, a proposed 960,000 square-foot development proposed for the former 7.
On March 11, City Hall obtained a loan of $60 million from Wells Fargo to jump start four Redevelopment Agency capital projects: the Palisades Garden Walk, new Pico Library, rebuilt Parking Structure 6 and Civic Auditorium renovation.
