Tag: Los Angeles City Council
New TVC appeals filed
By the Oct. 15 deadline, there were six appeals filed of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission’s recent approval of a major real estate development project proposed at the former CBS TV studio at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. “The process has been opaque and poorly managed. The project is out of scale and out […]
Planning Commission approves TVC 2050, with modifications
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission unanimously approved last month a slightly trimmer version of a major real estate development project proposed at the former CBS TV studio at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The 1.7 million-square-foot TVC 2050 Project next goes before the City Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee and then City […]
Officials back from Paris after summit on Olympics
Readying to host Olympic Games 2028 Mayor Karen Bass returned to Los Angeles from Paris on March 10, having led a delegation of members of the Los Angeles City Council and other civic leaders as part of her efforts to ensure that Los Angeles is prepared to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. […]
Camel’s nose under the tent: Metro digital billboards throughout our city
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission did a major disservice to good planning in Los Angeles on September 14th. Even though the details of the Planning Department’s staff report made it clear to anyone with an ounce of sense — showing what can result from “precedents” like the billboard industry’s carefully-lobbied plan to install bright […]
Yaroslavsky / Braude Prop U is impactful still
As a new member of the City Council in 1975, Zev Yaroslavsky began to see the impacts of poorly planned high-rise office development, and he decided to do something about it. He led a successful initiative election campaign, with his City Council colleague Marvin Braude, to urge city voters to enact Proposition U in 1986. […]
New mayor hard at work
Homelessness tops her agenda; move-in underway for Getty House in Windsor Square Before Mayor Karen Bass left for the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. in mid-January, she spoke with us about her rapid-fire actions to help alleviate homelessness since taking office just one month before. The solution will take “all hands on deck,” […]
