land use | KCET
land use
KL Featured Category
-
Agriculture
Earth Focus
Here's How Big Wine Gets To Avoid Environmental Rules in Napa
Post date:If you're in the wine trade, Napa County officials are willing to overlook a multitude of Zins.
-
urban wildlife
Redefine
Here's Why That Music Festival at Sepulveda Basin is a Bad Idea
Post date:Three days of music and bright lights during bird migration season just shouldn't fly.
-
climate change
Earth Focus
Paying for Climate Change: A Reinsurance Industry View
Post date:The reinsurance industry insures insurance companies to help reduce the risks associated with underwritten policies. Insurance rates have risen in areas with extreme weather events.
-
Arrival Stories
History & Society
Andy Hasroun: From Syria, He Got A Visa, His Brothers Did Not
Post date:Walking out of the airport was like a dream for the future Atwater Village business owner.
-
army corps of engineers
History & Society
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on The L.A. River
Post date:Thanks to a a 75 year old law, the mighty Los Angeles River is an exception to the-let's-look-at-our-waterways-rule.
-
laws that shaped l.a.
History & Society
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
Post date:Next time you wiggle your feet in the coastal sand, remember that there's a reason why California beaches are open to the public.
-
laws that shaped l.a.
History & Society
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
Post date:Los Angeles is often derided for its endless sprawl, which can be blamed on a law that passed more than a 100 years ago.
-
Redefine
Three California Forests Selected for New National Program
Post date:The Inyo, Sierra and Sequoia national forests are among the first public lands that will undergo a proposed national forest planning rule that will dictate how they manage activities like hiking, hunting, road construction and mining.
-
History & Society
Today in History: How the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Defined our Neighborhood Boundaries
Post date:Today marks the end of the Mexican-American War which not only secured the Southwest region for the U.S., but created a foundation of neighborhoods in L.A. still visible today.
-
Highland Park
Departures
Property Rights
Post date:Thanks to the lingering aftereffects of the New Deal and the post-WWII boom, development in Los Angeles was in full swing in the 1960s. A tidal wave of development would begin to rumble through the sleepy neighborhood.
-
Politics
Departures
Mike Newhouse: Venice Neighborhood Council
Post date:Laws passed by city council often have little to do with the neighborhood they represent and many opinions differ over issues of privacy, parking, and homelessness.President of the Venice neighborhood council, Mike Newhouse mediates these meetings.
-
Los Angeles
Commentary
16. Cynically manufactured and naïvely bought
Post date:Usher saw the city as something more than square footage.
-
density
Commentary
15. Winners and losers in the city's oldest game
Post date:The game has never had any place at the board for you. It’s always been the machine’s game.