This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. As I’ve written in two recent posts, tomorrow night the Planning Commission will review the Santa Monica Downtown Community Plan (DCP). After staff makes revisions to the current draft, the City Council…
This was originally published on the Healthy City Local. In my rant a few days ago I promised (threatened?) to come back with substantive analysis of the Downtown Community Plan (DCP), which the Planning Commission will review at its meeting…
This piece originally appeared in The Healthy City Local. For a liberal like me, it’s hard not to be cranky after Donald Trump’s TKO (i.e., Electoral College) defeat of Hillary Clinton. True, my mood was elevated somewhat by the local KO…
Santa Monica city planners offered a glimpse into the future of the bayside city’s thriving downtown Thursday. The new online tool lets visitors see which properties are likely to redevelop in the next 20 years and explore three dimensional renderings of…
What can the last 150 years of Santa Monica’s history teach us about the next 20? A lot, city officials hope. This Saturday at 10 a.m., the city will continue its series of workshops on preservation and change in Downtown…
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. wants to know what you love — and what you don’t — about the beachside city’s thriving urban core. To that end, the nonprofit that manages Santa Monica’s downtown area is employing a new digital tool,…
