Recently in Planning
Commentary:
A parking bill helps explain why the state Legislature has become, like the L.A. City Council, a place of "perfect little deals."
Commentary:
The city's birthplace isn't the haven for quiet nostalgia that was imagined in the 1930s. Long-standing conflicts make the plaza a tough sell.
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The L.A. region faces obstacles to more rail transit. Rights-of-way are few and some have angry neighbors.
Commentary:
Unwinding the state's 400 redevelopment agencies is underway while at the same time some in the legislature want to turn back the clock, but just a little.
Transportation:
The city of Los Angeles will hold an international design competition for a redesign of the 6th Street Bridge.
Commentary:
In a seeming paradox, the Los Angeles region has been near the top in urbanization for a long time.
Commentary:
You might think that local elected officials are responsible for your city's future. A state report on redevelopment's end shows how much you're wrong.
Commentary:
Green should mean good for cyclists. Hollywood disagrees.
Commentary:
With just 14 days to go, city officials have no clear idea of what will happen following the February 1 deadline that pulls the plug on California's 400 redevelopment agencies.
Commentary:
Some want billboards and signs to commodify the city's skyline.
Planning:
The popular and crowded Downtown L.A. Art Walk winds down an eventful year on a slightly high note.
Commentary:
Long Beach, the county's other big city, has Los Angeles-sized problems.
Planning:
Is Los Angeles resistant of planning or is it over-planned?
Elections:
As far as San Diego County supervisorial candidate Steve Danon sees it, there's a trend about to take flight: Removing redistricting power from supervisors.
Commentary:
A City Council member has written a letter urging adoption of a sign ordinance provision that would allow signs, banners, and other forms of commercial advertising in city parks and other public facilities.
Elections:
What would it take for an independent commission to draw the new district lines every 10 years, instead of the LA County Board of Supervisors?
Commentary:
Despite loud opposition from neighborhood organizations, a city council committee is on track to give preliminary approval to a controversial revision of the city's sign ordinance.
Commentary:
Not all defeated projects deserved being ground down by CEQA challenges. Not all objections to development projects were principled. But they did reflect a bias in the law toward localism. That's the real target of so-called "CEQA reform."
Communities:
Small business owners on Olympic Boulevard have mixed feelings about the prospect of a NFL stadium being built right next door to their downtown businesses near L.A. Live.
Commentary:
In fighting to protect redevelopment, cities may have created a worse problem.
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