City Council ignorant about state of infrastructure
City Council tries to upend Community Plans and zoning protection
Michael LoGrande, the city's new planning director, has been met with significant skepticism, which is understandable given his background. He was the city's chief zoning administrator and doesn't have a traditional planning background. He's seen as close to an increasingly unpopular mayor, a ... More >>
Now that Mayor Villaraigosa has selected Michael LoGrande to become director of planning, we've asked activists from around the city to give LoGrande advice: How should he approach the job? First up, Marcia Hanscom, Playa del Rey environmentalist.
Gail Goldberg, who hoped to bring high-density, transit-oriented development to Los Angeles but was accused of being too friendly to builders, has resigned as the city's top planner, leaving a key vacancy. The Weekly is reaching out to people all over the city to get their ideas about the t ... More >>
Mayor Villaraigosa has chosen Michael LoGrande, the city's current chief zoning administrator, to be director of the Planning Department, the Times reports. LoGrande replaces Gail Goldberg, who announced her resignation last month.
Promising "transparency," chief Austin Beutner paints the tarnished utility even darker
Gail Goldberg, who hoped to bring high-density, transit-oriented development to Los Angeles but was accused of being too friendly to builders, has resigned as the city's top planner, leaving a key vacancy. The Weekly is reaching out to people all over the city to get their ideas about the t ... More >>
Kevin ScanlonGail Goldberg retiring after four years​After four years at the helm of the Los Angeles Planning Department, Gail Goldberg announced her resignation today.Goldberg came to Los Angeles from San Diego with a vision for high-density development around transit corridors.But she was quickl ... More >>
Many children being raised in L.A.'s hip, new freeway-adjacent housing are damaged for life
Villaraigosa and his boys pushed out the one woman who topped them all
Los Angeles weighs a plan to allow back yard dwellings and car parking on lawns
In the increasingly acrimonious pot wars, all sides agree City Hall is incompetent
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to ban all digital billboards in the city, an action brought before them by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, who feared that an existing "Interim Control Ordinance" that temporarily bans digital billboards and super-graphics may soon be found inval ... More >>
A judge says City Hall broke the law by allowing outsize projects
A former commission president slams L.A.'s planning director as a developer sellout
Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA
Anti-billboard activists are breathing a sigh of relief. Yesterday, Clear Channel decided to withdraw its application to install a hyper-bright electronic billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. Clear Channel's attorney sent a letter to city planners withdrawing its application for a 14 foot by 4 ... More >>
Anti-clutter, anti-billboard activists are gearing up for a fight tomorrow when a hearing will be held on a proposed, hyper-bright electronic billboard on Ventura Boulevard in Encino. The Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight has been fighting to stop the bright billboard on Ventura Boulevard since l ... More >>
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