It only took about four years, but a small, mixed-use housing project with 26 proposed homes on a commercial stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard on the east side of town is headed to the Planning Commission next Wednesday. As proposed, the…
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. After six years of communal agonizing over the LUCE and then another five spent on a new zoning code to implement the LUCE, is there finally a working consensus on what…
The Plaza at Santa Monica could to be one of the most striking new buildings built in the bayside city — or possibly even in all of L.A. County — in decades. But first, it has a much more public…
Congrats to Santa Monica Next’s own Carter Rubin, who was appointed to the Planning Commission during the wee hours of the morning Wednesday. Rubin was tapped to fill a seat left vacant on the Commission, the city’s most powerful non-elected…
Next month, the City Council will consider a document that will impact Santa Monica’s future for the next several decades. When the Council votes on the ZOU it will have to decide whether or not the foundation upon which the Santa…
First, they fight against the proliferation of new housing; now they want to stop local cafes from selling beer and wine. Santa Monica’s newest Starbucks at Olympic and Main Street, which was slated to be the third Southern California location to…
