Kilroy Realty Backs Ballot Initiative to Repeal Measure ULA "If passed, it would raise the threshold for special taxes to approval by two-thirds of voters" (The Real Deal)
Editorial: Let skid row have affordable and market-rate housing. It’s the forward-looking thing to do "Some skid row residents and advocates for homeless people say this affordable-housing-only district will ensure poor people aren’t displaced by the market-rate development that will otherwise transform the community. Critics, including some service providers, however, warn that the city will be creating Containment 2.0, continuing the economic and social segregation that has fueled the miserable conditions on skid row." (LA Times)
One of skid row’s largest housing providers faces financial implosion "Skid Row Housing Trust, a pioneer in the decades-old movement to revive aging downtown real estate as homeless housing, has been working with other housing providers to take over its 29 buildings." (LA Times)
Another DIY LA Crosswalk Turns Permanent As Activist Group Continues To Take Requests "The collective's DIY crosswalk was painted in November last year. LADOT replaced it in the same month, according to department spokesperson Colin Sweeney. He told LAist over email that the city has an urgency to make streets safer." (LAist)
SFA Happy Hour ft. Lindsey Horvath - February 2023 "We discussed Lindsey's role on the Metro Board, congestion pricing, the Sepulveda Transit Corridor, the Crenshaw Line Northern Extension, the role the County plays vis-a-vis incorporated cities, policing on Metro, and much more." (Streets For All - YouTube)
Metro completes subway tunnels under Beverly Hills " The machines, named Harriet and Ruth, began excavating the tunnels between the Century City/Constellation and Wilshire/La Cienega stations on April 30, 2020, heading east from Century City. They excavated an average of 35 feet of soil per day...." (Beverly Press)
Nelson Rising, who shaped L.A. and oversaw some of California’s biggest projects, dies at 81 "Rising led the development of such large-scale properties as U.S. Bank Tower, an office skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that was for many years the tallest building in the West, and Playa Vista, a mixed-use neighborhood created on land near the Los Angeles coast that had been home to business mogul Howard Hughes’ aviation empire." (LA Times)
Los Angeles — it’s not just beautiful weather, traffic and the Hollywood Walk of Fame — it’s also the largest shared micromobility market in the U.S. with six operators permitted to deploy up to 6,000 vehicles each." (dot LA)
