This week: Join the Santa Monica League of Women Voters for a forum on higher education. Next week: Join Santa Monica Next for a happy hour mixer with Gehl Architects on Wednesday, then celebrate “A Pathless Land” with Beautify Earth…
Earlier this month, the Santa Monica Housing Commission voted to recommend extending the time people can spend looking for a place to live through the federal rental subsidy program known as Section 8. While the recommendation to increase the time period…
Anticipating the rising cost of water delivery and lost revenue for Santa Monica’s water fund due to a mandatory water use reduction strategy, the City Council last night unanimously approved a plan that could raise water rates in the city up…
Editor’s Note: This is cross posted from Los Angeles Streetsblog. Joe Linton contributed to this article. Yesterday, the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), TransitCenter, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Move L.A., and the Shared Use Mobility Center, joined forces…
Save the date, folks. On March 11, Santa Monica Next will host an urbanism + placemaking happy hour with Gehl Architects from 6 to 8 p.m. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Gehl Architects will be in town that week for the West…
The city of Santa Monica adopted a faulty plan when, in 2010, the Council unanimously approved the Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE), the policy document that would guide the city’s future for the next 20 years. The LUCE, the…
It’s a short week this week, which means we won’t have to wait so long to get to the fun stuff coming up, like Streetsblog Los Angeles’ 7th birthday party and Live Ride Share, Southern California’s first shared-use mobility conference.…
Santa Monica, like the rest of the region, is experiencing a historic housing crisis that is driving up prices and forcing working and middle-class families out of town. While Santa Monica requires about 30 percent of all new housing built to be permanently subsidized, there…
In a day and age when most people are used to making important decisions in group email threads or in virtual meetings with colleagues scattered all across the globe, hours-long in-person meetings are increasingly a thing of the past. Except,…
Coming up in Santa Monica, we have a special Valentine’s Day Kidical Mass bike ride, a retreat on affordable housing hosted by the Housing Commission, and the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce’s Organization of Women Leaders (OWL) will honor two local…
To hear people talk about Santa Monica in the “good old days” — of course, when those days specifically were always depends on who you are asking — you might get the sense that it was truly a bucolic paradise. It…
The City Council Tuesday night will set the guidelines for an advisory committee that will help shape the future of Bergamot Station Arts Center and city officials want to make sure that younger residents have a voice in the process. Staff is…
Santa Monica could move to regulate rideshare companies operating within the city’s borders later this, according to a report by the Santa Monica Daily Press. While the Daily Press report gave no specific date, the Council will likely discuss the issue…
Mark your calendars, Santa Monica. The Big Blue Bus wants your feedback on the agency’s newly redesigned bus stop seats, which will be at different locations around the city over the next three weeks; there will also be some important changes to bus…
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has partnered with several local and national nonprofit organizations, including the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), for Live.Ride.Share, Southern California’s first ever shared-use mobility conference on February 23. The…
