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Will Downtown El Monte be Reshaped by Complete Streets?
El Monte is studying designs for a complete streets project that would create crosstown bike lanes on Valley Boulevard, and pedestrianize Main Street's Valley Mall, where businesses are expressing concerns over potential removal of storefront parking
August 10, 2023
County Supervisors Toss Out Activist Appeal Against Hacienda Heights Condos, Solis Abstains
A coalition of concerned residents had a dozen arguments up their sleeves to stave off development in their neighborhood, but it wasn’t enough to get their way
July 27, 2022
Beating of Unhoused Boyle Heights Man Exposes Woeful Inadequacy of LAPD Reform Proposals
Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police
June 23, 2020
Public Comment Period on Dorset Village Extended; Number of Proposed Affordable Units Dropped to 141
The original comment period straddled Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa before closing on December 27.
January 14, 2020
Metro PSAs Target Vendors, Make Other Missteps in Effort to Teach Transit Etiquette
“Wait, did they just deport the vendor?”
September 26, 2018
In Questionable Move, Affordable Housing Developer Awards Leasing Applications to First 400 Callers
Leasing applications are generally treated with more care than concert tickets that go to the first ten callers that happen to be listening in. Not this time.
September 21, 2018
“Burn the Witch!”: Public Enthusiasm for Dragging Rude Youth from Trains Highlights Gap in Metro’s Equity Platform
People had been so caught up in detailing the crimes against humanity her “poopy feet” had wrought that there was very little space for reflection on the larger implications of what it was that people were cheering.
March 8, 2018
Metro Committee Approves Developers for Mariachi Plaza and Cesar Chavez/Fickett Sites; Board to Vote Jan. 25
Many of those speaking up in favor of the project Wednesday touched on how important it was that Metro had shifted gears and listened to the community three years ago. But they also wanted Metro to understand the agency would have to deepen its relationship with the community for the project to be truly successful.
January 18, 2018
People’s Plan Helps Shape South and Southeast L.A. Community Plans
A ten-year community-led planning effort paralleled the city's own process and shaped the final form of the South and Southeast community plans.
November 22, 2017
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
She had had enough of hearing her community spoken about in offensive ways by well- (and not-so-well-) meaning planners and advocates, enough of giving 110 percent of herself only to realize a fraction of what she put forward was being seen as having value, enough of how disinterested those with power over what happened in marginalized communities remained in the larger picture, and enough of being tokenized.
November 10, 2017
