More than 100 vacant, government-owned parcels in L.A. could be used for housing, study finds "In releasing a database of 126 proposed sites online, the committee sought to keep up pressure on Mayor Karen Bass to follow though on her campaign pledge to build 1,000 beds on public land in her first year in office....The study authors said they identified more than enough usable parcels to support 1,000 beds of shelter and permanent housing, and proposed a timeline to produce the housing within six months." (LA Times)
That’s big o’ me: The alleged crimes of Curren Price are extremely confusing "There is so much real, tangible corruption in this city. And I cannot, would not, stake a bet on Price being innocent of the same excesses of that City Hall culture in which he has been immersed for a decade, but these charges, outlandish and flimsy, can only undermine the project of attempting to correct the course of city government." (Benny Wally)
Opinion: The PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger isn’t the problem. Golf is "That’s only the beginning of the disproportionate public investment in the sport. Los Angeles County operates no fewer than 20 public golf courses, the nation’s largest such system. California’s public golf courses occupy enough land to build 375,000 homes at moderate density, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. In 2022, an Assembly committee killed a bill that would have made it slightly easier to develop housing on some of that vast acreage." (LA Times)
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Metro Opens Downtown Regional Connector Subway "The 1.9-mile $1.8 billion light rail includes thee new stations, but its big benefit is tying together several formerly disconnected rail lines. The Metro A Line is now 49.5 miles long, the longest light rail line in US." (Streetsblog LA)
Judge Removes 7 Buildings From Troubled Skid Row Housing Receiver’s Portfolio "A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge approved a deal Thursday to remove seven buildings from a troubled receivership tasked with stabilizing 29 buildings formerly managed by the Skid Row Housing Trust....In a Thursday afternoon court hearing in Downtown L.A., Judge Mitchell Beckloff at times grew frustrated with the responses from court-appointed receiver Mark Adams, who has faced questions about his suitability to rehabilitate these sensitive properties." (LAist)
Santa Monica’s Ocean Ave Protected Bikeway Installation Captures the World’s Attention "Many of you have seen the tweet. On May 27, the city of Santa Monica tweeted a video of a machine smoothly and quickly laying down the concrete barrier for a protected bike lane. Just about everyone who saw it, from Councilmember Jesse Zwick to activists in New York and Australia, had the same verdict, 'we need more of these wonderful machines.'" (Streetsblog LA)
