Each year, the American Planning Association’s Los Angeles Chapter holds an award banquet to honor best practices, progressive projects and planning heroes. Santa Monica is often well represented at these banquets: past winners include Pam O’Connor, the city’s Land Use…
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…
Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square, the two newest additions to Santa Monica’s public green space, got top honors from the American Planners Association (APA) last month. The two parks, which cover about 7.4 acres from City Hall to Ocean…
