Santa Monica Mayor Brock held a Town Hall meeting last Wednesday. If you didn’t hear about it, that may be because it was called only 49 hours in advance of the meeting, the location changed, and the venue prohibited attendees…
The UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies is hosting TransportationCamp LA 2024 on Saturday, June 8. Transportation Camp will bring together around 150 people interested in transportation to discuss whatever they decide to based on their interests and experiences. There is no set agenda…
If you recently read that the City’s tallest apartment building could come to 6th and Colorado, you may be left wondering how the facts of that story measure up. Measurement should be objective: arguments over the length of an hour,…
On October 27th, a 69-year old local resident was killed by a driver of a vehicle in a traffic collision at 19th St and Idaho Avenue in the Wilmont neighborhood of Santa Monica. This intersection is one of a handful…
Waymo has arrived in Santa Monica. Yes, for several months Waymos have been riding around town gathering data and testing. Sometimes there’s a test driver, other times there’s not. But Waymo is a passenger service, and that capability is soon…
In advance of Tuesday’s meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, Councilmember Phil Brock placed two items on the agenda. By the end of the meeting the Council not only failed to consider either of these two items, but also…
In 2022, Santa Monica’s state senator Ben Allen passed a bill that granted cities authority to require new or renovated public toilet facilities within its jurisdiction to be designated as all-gender. The Cities of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and West…
In the 2016 presidential election, a Trump surrogate promised a taco truck on every corner if Hilary Clinton won. This is one of many reasons I supported Hilary. However, as with most policy positions, Trump overestimated the federal executive branch’s…
Santa Monica City and school district have a rare opportunity to work together to make our City’s streets safer for children and families going to school. But they only have a few months to act before this once-in-a-generation opportunity passes.…
Urban sprawl is the leading cause of air pollution, greenhouse gasses, wildfires, and other contributors to the global warming that is likely to end civilization as we know it. People who live in remote suburbs drive many more miles, costing…
Already convinced? All donations are tax deductible and can be made at Donor Box or Patreon. Santa Monica Next relaunched this week as a progressive non-profit news voice for a progressive city. Unlike its previous five year run between 2013…
Endorsements, and mailers that tout those endorsements, are a common place in Santa Monica politics. Local news covers endorsements from political parties such as Santa Monicans for Renters Rights or Santa Monica Forward. Statewide and regional groups such as Streets for All and the Sierra Club blast out endorsement announcements to hundreds or thousands of people on mailing lists.
This is part 2 of a series on Downtown Santa Monica. Part 3 will look at the close relationship between council members and the Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association. Part 1 can be read, here. The Santa Monica Bayside Owners…
A group of property owners who have sought greater influence in the affairs of the organization formed the Santa Monica Bayside Owners’ Association. The group has argued that Santa Monica residents are not downtown stakeholders because they haven’t invested their money in the downtown, a view supported by Councilmember Phil Brock.
This post, by Frank Gruber and Juan Matute, first appeared on The Healthy City Local. We wrote in our last piece that although the City of Santa Monica is experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis during which revenues are predicted to miss targets by…
