Subject:

Geoff Palmer

  • News

    March 6, 2010

    Black Lung Lofts

    Many children being raised in L.A.'s hip, new freeway-adjacent housing are damaged for life

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Mayor's Housing Plan Left Homeless

    As we reported previously, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's pro-density housing policy took a hit when the state Supreme Court ruled last month that the city could not require the kind affordable housing units it tried to attach to otherwise upscale developments like Geoff Palmer's west-of-downtown Pier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    L.A. Forced to Rethink Affordable Housing Plan

    ​It's back to the drawing board for city planners who've been working on Mayor Villaraigosa's much-touted affordable housing plan. While officials were supposed to present an outline of the plan to the City Council this month, they're now saying they have to rethink the terms of the "mixed-income ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Mayor's Affordable Housing Plan Takes a Hit

    ​Mayor Villaraigosa's affordable housing plan could be in for some trouble. The California Supreme Court has struck down the city's plea that a developer be forced to include low-income units in his project. Yesterday's ruling, the latest and perhaps final chapter in a two-year legal battle betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    City's 'Live/Work' Definition to Change

    BlogDowntown reports on a little change in city ordinance English that will have a big (and beneficial) effect on developers. Yesterday, reports Eric Richardson, the L.A. City Council's planning committee instructed the city attorney to draft a change in the definition of what constitutes "live/work ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2006

    Pulling a Huizar

    An insider talks trash as he eyes his boss’s lucrative City Council seat

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Revising Los Angeles’ DNA

    The perfect apartment balcony beats any ranch tract house

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Rebel With a Plan

    Ed Reyes is angry. He wants the "zombies" in L.A.’s Planning Department out. He wants affordable-housing supporters in. And he wants his more polite colleagues on the City Council to help him pull it off.

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    The Swinging Door

    A new council, rich lobbyists and a sheriff who doesn’t want to leave

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Two Toms

    We have the vision of the one, we need the vision of the other

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Doing the Medici

    Imagine world peace; then imagine Central City as the new San Marino

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