Every week Next republishes an article from City Manager Oliver Chi’s weekly newsletter. Some of the most important infrastructure work is the kind nobody sees, as evidenced by the work our Architecture Services Division and Airport Team just completed to…
The planning process for transforming the former Santa Monica Airport into a major public park is moving into its next phase, as city officials and the project team prepare to turn a broad framework into a more detailed master plan.…
Every week, Next republishes a piece from City Manager Oliver Chi’s weekly newsletter. Our Airport team and Architectural Services Division have recently completed a terrific renovation of 3200 Airport Avenue, which served as the original 1940s administration building for Santa…
Well, it’s official: The proposed ballot initiative to allow housing at Santa Monica Airport will not be on the fall ballot, but a similar measure could appear on the 2028 ballot if supporters gather enough signatures. Any signatures gathered in…
Despite ongoing controversy surrounding scheduled passenger service at Santa Monica Airport, JSX is expanding its operations with new nonstop flights to Oakland beginning this fall. The public charter carrier announced this week that it will begin offering up to three…
A proposed ballot initiative that would have allowed housing on part of the future Santa Monica Airport site will not appear on the November 2026 ballot after organizers failed to gather enough signatures before the deadline. Supporters of the measure…
The Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday night to accept more than $10.5 million in state and county grants to advance planning and development of the future Great Park at the site of the Santa Monica Airport. The funding includes…
(Update, 6/15/26: The signature gathering campaign mentioned below is for the 2028 ballot.) Earlier this week, Santa Monica Next reported that the measure that would allow housing to be built on the land that is currently the Santa Monica Airport.…
(Update: Cloverfield Commons has released a letter stating that the measure is still on. Read all about it. Original reporting below.) (Update Again: The measure is on hold until 2028 at the earliest. Signature gathering continues.) Here’s a piece of…
Juliette van der Meijden is an Urbanist & Strategic Advisor specializing in regenerative city building. She can be reached at juliette@curatedbyjuliette.com. All images in this piece are of Emscher Park Nord in Germany. “Make no little plans; they have no…
Photo of 1934 golf tournament at the original park. Credit UCLA Archives provided by Great Park Coalition. Santa Monica residents will have a chance to celebrate the city’s past—and its future—this weekend at a community picnic hosted by the Santa…
t’s going on 15 years since the movement to convert Santa Monica Airport into a Great Park began. Back then, in the early twenty-teens, the focus was on making sure Santa Monica could close the airport. This was because the…
The Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC), a non-profit founded in 2005 to battle what it sees as the undue influence of developers in city politics, has announced its support for a ballot measure that would allow thousands…
The Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District (RPOSD) announced its 2026 Measure A grant awards this week, including $499,149 for the City of Santa Monica to support planning and design for the first 20 acres of the…
This piece first appeared in The Healthy City Local website by Frank Gruber and is syndicated here with the author’s permission. If you have been reading me since I started writing my column in the Lookout News 26 years ago,…
