The following is a submission from Santa Monica Forward. Santa Monica Forward Opposes Airport Housing Initiative Santa Monica Forward has long championed building more housing at all income levels to address the city’s acute housing shortage; it is a bedrock…
The City of Santa Monica has released a Draft Framework Diagram for the future Great Park that will replace the Santa Monica Airport when it closes after 2028, marking the beginning of Phase 3B of the Santa Monica Airport Conversion…
Supporters of a controversial proposed ballot measure that would allow up to 3,000 units of housing to be built on the current site of Santa Monica Airport — should the airport be closed by the city in 2029 — are…
Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park, who’s district includes Mar Vista, West Los Angeles, the Palisades and Venice and more wrote last month to the Santa Monica City Council to ask for a formal assessment of the Santa Monica Airport’s…
A new poll released earlier today in the Santa Monica Daily Press claims overwhelming support among Santa Monica voters for keeping the Santa Monica Airport open, a somewhat shocking result given the prevailing political view closing the airport on the…
It went from rumor to reality in just under a week. Yesterday, three Santa Monica residents began a process that could lead to a citywide vote on whether to allow housing to be built on land currently occupied by Santa…
Over the weekend, rumors swirled that leadership at Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) is preparing language for a citizen-led ballot initiative for the fall that would allow up to 3,000 units of housing to be built on land currently…
The City of Santa Monica has formally issued a Commercial Operations Permit and signed a three-year lease agreement allowing JSX to operate at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) through November 30, 2028. The move follows a rigorous technical and legal review…
The following is a submission from the Spirit of Santa Monica. The above photo also provided by Spirit of Santa Monica. The Spirit of Santa Monica proudly presented Douglas Day 2025, a free community celebration honoring Santa Monica’s legacy of…
It was no quiet night in city council chambers on Tuesday evening, as the council conducted a study session on the much-anticipated, much-desired park space on the land that is currently the Santa Monica Airport. A couple hundred residents rallied…
When the United Democratic Slate swept all four seats in the last election, there were cheers (or concerns) that a new progressive super-majority would dramatically change the way the city operates. However, there were three controversial votes taken at last…
Note from the editor of Next: The City Council will vote on how best to proceed in planning for the conversion of Santa Monica Airport into a park at tonight’s City Council meeting. Todd Flora will have a report later…
This article first appears at the Healthy City Local. In case you have lost the thread of these posts, let me reiterate that there are three factors that will affect the planning and construction of the park that will replace…
I suspect that many you reading this joined the 5,000 demonstrators who jammed Palisades Park on Saturday for the “No Kings” rally. Leaving aside the bigger issues like whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that…
The two posts I wrote last week about building a great park to replace Santa Monica Airport were gloomy, focusing as they did on problems with the planning process. Such issues, though, should not diminish the joy we should be…
