Tag: PLUM

New TVC appeals filed

New TVC appeals filed

| October 24, 2024 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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Neighborhood rallies for Save Beverly Fairfax at block party

Neighborhood rallies for Save Beverly Fairfax at block party

| October 24, 2024 | 0 Comments

The 300 block of North Sierra Bonita Avenue was abuzz on Sun., Oct. 13. Neighbors were chatting over free donuts; children were holding giant lollipops in one hand and balloon animals in the other; and dozens of dogs, big and small, were present. Giant balloon bouquets welcomed everyone to the Save Beverly Fairfax annual block […]

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Planning Commission approves TVC 2050, with modifications

Planning Commission approves TVC 2050, with modifications

| September 26, 2024 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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A City Planning Department ‘out of touch’ with neighbors

A City Planning Department ‘out of touch’ with neighbors

| May 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

A big push from City Hall to build affordable housing fast has left many communities perplexed and angry. Including ours. Called ED 1, the mayor’s executive directive to speed construction of 100-percent affordable housing and address the city’s homelessness crisis has railroaded projects that have hurt some of the communities the program strives to help, […]

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Camel’s nose under the tent: Metro digital billboards throughout our city

Camel’s nose under the tent: Metro digital billboards throughout our city

| September 28, 2023 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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Billboard blight, digital signs are on City Council agenda

Billboard blight, digital signs are on City Council agenda

| September 28, 2023 | 0 Comments

Glowing billboards on Los Angeles County Metropolitan  Transportation Authority (LACMTA, Metro) properties within the City of Los Angeles are coming closer into view after the City Planning Commission unanimously recommended that the City Council amend a zoning code that bans the flashing signs. At a Sept. 14 public hearing, the Commission approved Metro’s request to […]

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