News from Santa Monica.
The countdown has begun for the opening of Expo Phase 2 with just over a week left before the 6.6 mile extension of the Expo line opens to the public. Starting on Monday, various members of the media, public officials,…
Just south of the intersection of Pico and 28th Street sits a small apartment complex. There are four bungalows stretching back from the street, lined up side by side. On a Friday afternoon in late April, a man in a…
In case you needed a reminder that, in less than a month, you’ll be able to take a train from Downtown Los Angeles to Downtown Santa Monica, Metro.net has posted the official route map and timetable for Expo. According to…
For the past three years, we at Santa Monica Next have sought to unravel and explain in an accessible way the complexities of urban planning. Sometimes it has meant doing deep bores into housing policy. Other times it has meant making…
May is Bike Month and you can get ready starting on day one with Santa Monica’s Gear Up! event this Sunday. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at McKinley Elementary School, join the Santa Monica Bike Center, Santa Monica Spoke,…
Juan Matute contributed research to this report, using building permit and inspection data downloaded from Santa Monica’s Open Data Portal on March 26th and April 9th, 2016. There’s a lot of talk about real estate development in Santa Monica. And…
A new report released by the city of Santa Monica last week revealed that in Santa Monica’s booming downtown, nearly two-thirds of people living there are struggling to do so. According to the report, about 60 percent of Downtown Santa…
Expo phase 2 will be opening to Downtown Santa Monica in less than a month and already, the terminus at 5th Street and Colorado Avenue is shaping up to be a multi-modal hub. In order to improve the pedestrian and…
Santa Monica city officials have begun moving forward with a new, extended outreach schedule to get feedback from community members on the plan that will guide the future of the city’s downtown for the next 20 years. The new schedule…
Continuing our coverage of bills making their way through the California legislative session, today we’re highlighting some bills that we like. Some of these will likely be heard first at the Assembly Transportation Committee this Monday, April 11. Firstly, the…
The California legislature is back from spring recess and the process of hearing and arguing about bills is beginning in earnest. In the next few days, Streetsblog California will talk about some exciting bills coming up that may need your…
Main Street in Santa Monica is arguably one of the most walkable, bikeable parts of the city. It’s lined with local, community-serving businesses; it has vivid, green bike lanes; and soon, it will be getting Santa Monica’s first three parklets…
City officials announced Tuesday that the community process for Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan, which will guide the future of the city’s thriving core for the next 15 years or so, would be extended several months to allow for more…
Santa Monica could see an addition of new park space now that a six-acre lot at the southeast corner of the municipal airport has been cleared of plane parking. “I am glad to report the aircraft have been removed from…
Local safe-streets advocate, Cynthia Rose, took home the Alliance for Biking & Walking Susie Stephens Joyful Enthusiasm Award at the National Bike Summit in Washington D.C., convened earlier this month by the League of American Bicyclists. Rose, a long-time Santa…
