The fall election is still five months off and already a number of issues are getting plenty of pre-election buzz.

The major issue is the Land Use Voter Empowerment (LUVE) initiative that will be before Santa Monica voters Nov. 8. In a nutshell, the citizen-backed measure (which might not appear on the ballot as “LUVE,” but under some other designation) promises to stop the new, oversized construction projects such as the kind we see sprouting up all over our fair city.

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