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Real Estate Firm Plans to Redevelop Three Wilshire Properties Into Hundreds Housing Units

02/28/2022 10:14 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The first project that CEI is conducting community meetings and applying for City entitlements for is at 2025 and 2501 Wilshire. Both buildings would be a mixed-use combination of residences and ground floor commercial space.

SMa.r.t. Column: Parking, Density and Inequality

02/28/2022 10:11 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Parking. In buildings. On the street. How important can that be? Who does it impact? And after decades of discussion, why is it still a controversial topic?

This, like several other state land use and urban planning policies, has as its key impact the increase in inequality.

How do we find a way to stay unique?

02/25/2022 9:19 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Phil Brock

"You had a well defined community complete with its own feeling of culture and above all - a distinct difference than LA," states second generation native Phil Brock. "We knew we were not LA and we were proud of it."

L.A. receives grant money for homeless housing

02/25/2022 9:10 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The City of Los Angeles will receive $1.7 million from the State of California to rehouse 60 individuals as part of a $50 million initiative to clear encampments.

Governor Gavin Newsom announced the award of $50 million in grants to 19 communities throughout California on Thursday to provide shelter or housing for 1,401 individuals currently experiencing homelessness in encampments.

100 Families Apply for SM Program Prioritizing Housing for Historically Displaced Households

02/25/2022 9:07 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

More than 100 families have applied to a pilot program that gives priority on Santa Monica's affordable housing waitlist to the households who were displaced by the Civic Auditorium or I-10 Freeway projects in the 1950s and 1960s, civic officials announced this week.

Gelson's Proposed Project Is a Done Deal

02/25/2022 9:03 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Under SB330, which is meant to fast track new housing construction, the nearly 900,000-square-foot project -- comprised of ten five-story buildings on a 4.7-acre site -- only requires an administrative approval, Martin said.

WE CAN TALK - Charles Andrews

02/24/2022 8:56 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

YOU CAN’T STOP THIS ONE

The monster coming to plant itself at the already very busy intersection of Lincoln and Ocean Park. And this 10-building project (ugly buildings too, in my opinion), nearly a million square feet, will take out all the community-serving businesses there now – UPS store, pharmacy, low cost haircuts, sushi restaurant, dry cleaners, nail salon, optical store, pet supplies, the full-size Gelson’s supermarket.

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

02/24/2022 8:54 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The program “is still unable to meet the demands of the homelessness crisis,” Galperin said in a letter accompanying the 31-page report. The pace of development is sluggish, he said, while the cost of each unit continues to rise — in some cases to “staggering heights.”

Most of the units are studios or one-bedroom apartments. The audit found 14% of the units build exceeded $700,000 each, and one project in pre-development is estimated to cost almost $837,000 per unit.

Prang Seeks Third Term as LA County Assessor

02/24/2022 8:35 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

We asked Assessor Prang some questions about the role and responsibility of his position and how those responsibilities impact Westside neighborhoods.

How are properties valued?

The appraisal of property begins using industry standard methods: the market, cost, and income approaches. The appraisal may be adjusted based on a number of considerations, including partial ownership, exclusions, exemptions, Prop. 13 limitations, etc.

Council Nixes Probe into Closed Session Leaks

02/24/2022 8:33 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The City Council on Tuesday voted not to pursue an investigation into the source of closed session leaks it had approved earlier this month.

The Council failed to muster the four votes needed to hire an investigative team to get to the bottom of the leaks some Councilmembers beleive are jeopardizing key hires.