The draft of the new Downtown Community Plan has now been made available to the public for input. This draft is the result of years of effort, re-writing and reconfiguring.
We have written about adaptive re-use in our previous columns of "The Magic of Adaptive Reuse" and "Shape Up". We postulate that with proper incentives, the
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Us homeless, we do not get much of a chance to speak up about the things Daily Press writers write about but now that some old blabbering woman by
It's time to stop the madness in Santa Monica! Even with the adoption of the new zoning code, the battle over height and density continues. This Zoning Code,
Now that our City Council has reformed the old zoning ordinance into a new, more opaque document, it is moving on to the adoption of a specific plan for our
Santa Monica residents are being squeezed by two related realities: 1) increasing property values affordable only to a small minority, and 2) a lack of low-cost housing caused by the
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
The City Council is getting ready to approve a controversial new Zoning Code. Many would describe the currently proposed code as incentivizing development instead of managing it for a more
As a community, we have spent more than six years establishing goals and objectives in defining the LUCE, a new general plan for our city. Then we set out to
