News from Santa Monica.
On Friday, the City of Santa Monica announced that “Safe Streets for 17th Street and Michigan Avenue” was honored by the League of California Cities as the winner of the “2024 Local Streets and Roads Project Award, Complete Streets.” The…
At next Tuesday’s City Council meeting (Agenda, Item 11a), the Council will consider selecting a development team that would turn three city-owned surface parking lots along the Wilshire corridor into multi-level permanent affordable housing. The three parking lots are located…
Earlier today, Waymo began offering fully autonomous car service for “select members of the public” in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. According to a press statement the service will include. For the first couple of weeks, rides will be free…
At the December 12 meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, the Council voted to extend the “free parking” hours in city owned lots from 90 minutes to three hours during the last three days before Christmas to encourage more…
This weekend, unarmed transit security officers began riding on the Santa Monica’s buses and monitoring transit stops as part of the Big Blue Bus’ “Transit Safety Officer Program.” The City Council unanimously approved the program at their January 23rd meeting.…
The Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization denied a petition to change the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s elections by creating voting districts to replace the at-large electoral system for the Board of Education. The vote was a…
Incumbents Cruise in Quiet Election Night Yesterday’s primary election saw no real surprises in the nation or California as incumbent candidates and other perceived front runners cruised out of the primary ready for one-on-one battles in the fall. You can…
Welcome to the first issue of volume fourteen of Swish, a periodical with recaps and photos of Santa Monica Family YMCA youth basketball games, and other pertinent info such as announcements and updates from the program. This Winter season, the…
UPDATE 3/5/2024: The ARB approved the building 5-0 last night with some small conditions that staff and the developer believe will easily be worked out. I see it every week during my Saturday run at the southwest corner of Ocean…
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District publicly released a letter in response to the threat of a legal challenge against its district-wide election system. The challenge comes from the Pico Neighborhood Association, represented by Kevin Shenkman, and charges the current…
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education will hold a special board tonight meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the district office. At the meeting, the board will discuss whether or not to eliminate…
City Manager David White is scheduled to provide an update on the city’s efforts to achieve Vision Zero, that is make city streets so safe to move through that there are zero traffic related fatalities, at tomorrow night’s city council…
In a public video posted to social media, Santa Monica Vice-Mayor Lana Negrete revelealed a serious cancer diagnosis that will require chemotherapy to battle. In the video, Negrete shows courage and resolve and vows to “fucking kick this fucking cancer’s…
The City of Santa Monica will host a community solutions summit on Saturday, March 2, as the next phase in the process to create a citywide equity plan. All are invited to attend the “Community Solutions Summit: Turning Equity Priorities…
Last year, transit agencies and advocates warned that the state budget was heading towards a fiscal disaster and as the state budget cut hundreds of millions of dollars from transit operations. Advocates for safe streets were similarly alarmed that funding…
