The city of Santa Monica delayed a vote on the future of the nativity scene tradition in Palisades Park, reports CBS Los Angeles. The controversy follows last year’s event in which all but three of the traditional 14 nativity scenes were used for more secular purposes.
The Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning earlier this month released a revised 2035 General Plan Update Draft –the first comprehensive update of the General Plan for unincorporated portions of the county since 1980 (that plan expired in 2000). For some context, when the 1980 General Plan was crafted, planners lacked the ability to map specific parcel details, not to mention the 1984 Olympics hadn’t even happened yet, so Angelenos still didn’t know what a car-free weekend looked like
South El Monte swap meet sign via eyetwist / Curbed LA flickr pool
DOWNTOWN: One day the weedy, puddle-y lot at First and Broadway will have a shiny new federal courthouse on it, but right now the government hasn’t even picked an architect yet and the lot is as weedy and puddle-y as ever.
Holy crap, our cars are going to drive themselves sooner rather than later.
Here now, From Curbed Marketplace , highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace . Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured?
Here now, From Curbed Marketplace , highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace . Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured?
Click here to view the full photogallery. Did you know there is a plan to develop the West Santa Ana Branch of the old Pacific Electric corridor into a public transit line with a projected ridership of 80,000 passengers a day ? The Downey Beat reports that a planning effort, led by the Southern California Association of Governments, has produced an Initial Executive Summary for a Alternatives Analysis Report (pdf) for the long-stewing plans (they’ve been floating around since 2002)
Click here to view the full photogallery. According to its listing, this is the first time this Altadena Craftsman has been on the market in 55 years
DOWNTOWN: Dynamic parking pricing has hit LA, with the official launch of the ExpressPark program today in four and half square miles of Downtown.
