Questions Without Answers

QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS 1. The City recently bought a 52,000 square foot parcel at Fifth and Arizona for $45 million. At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, the parcel was described as the site of a new parking structure. Can you calculate the cost of each parking space (land +materials +labor), and how many cars will have to park in each space to pay off those costs? 2. Two decades ago, there was a Spanish language movie theater on... Read More

Council Approves Jumbo LUCE

Last night. the City Council approved the LUCE, the Jumbo version that Hank  Koning and .Gwynne Pugh sold it last  week.  (see story below) But it continued to waffle on the moral issues raised by residents, ranging from elderly people to students. They want “social and environmental justice”for the Pico Neighborhood, beginning with the end of the ‘Toxic Triangle.’ which has ssaulted nearby residents for years. The fate... Read More

City Council Strikes Out

Having lost its way several years ago, on July 1, 2010, Santa Monica lost its collective mind. City staff, innumerable consultants, developers, lawyers, other “special interests,” and residents spent seven years and untold millions of dollars revising the land use and circulation elements of the General Plan (LUCE). and Thursday night, the City Council succumbed to the blandishments and buncombe served up by architects Hank Koning and  Gwynne... Read More