Category Archives: City
LA’s Board of Transportation Votes Against City Parking Lot for Controversial Venice/Dell Project
(Editor’s note: Just as Pacific Palisades, Venice residents have been fighting over land use issues, which makes this relevant to residents. In a February 2022 City Watch story (“Sound the Alarm: Ignore the Venice Median Project at Your own Peril”...
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No PLUM Decision on Tramonto Development
At the City Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee meeting on December 3, the four homes proposed to be built on the Tramonto landslide were not discussed. The Pacific Palisades Residents Association’s (PPRA) lawyer told President Jessica Rogers the...
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Another Damning Audit for LAHSA: Will Anything Happen?
(This article first appeared in CityWatch on November 25 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL On November 19, L.A. County’s Auditor-Controller released its audit of LAHSA’s financial practices. Its 16 findings are nothing short of damning. Among a...
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Letter: Residents Need to Ask City for Full EIR for Tramonto Project
(Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to CTN) Thank you for previously publishing informative articles in Circling the News about the Development. I am hoping that you can publish another for us urgently. There is a PLUM hearing on Tuesday...
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L.A. City Serves as a Slumlord to a Castellammare Home
An abandoned house at 17909 Porto Marina had squatters living in it in July, and again in August. The Pacific Palisades Homeless Task Force was notified and helped remove the people. When neighbors went to City records to find out...
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Sanitation Rates Will Double by 2028 because of Tacit Approval
A Palisades resident wrote at the end of October, “I just found out that the mayor approved an increase of 22% on LADWP sewer! How can the city arbitrarily increase this charge without going to the voters to approve the increase?...
Not Content with Fraud and Incompetence, the Homeless Industrial Complex Has Resorted to Extortion
(Editor’s note: This piece was first printed on November 9 in the all aspect report, dubbed occasional & unconventional opinions & investigations. The author is a lawyer, journalist, muckraker and Californian. This is a must read for anyone concerned about...
Posted in City, Homelessness
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Do Poor Choices Cause Homelessness?
(Editor’s Note: This Article first appeared on November 4, 2024, in CityWatch and is reprinted with its author’s permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL This column probably isn’t about what you may think given its title. It’s not about the life decisions...
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Work on Asilomar Will Continue Tomorrow, October 28
A resident wrote: “Can you look into what is (not) going on with the Asilomar stabilization and road closure project? It started almost a year ago, and it appeared that the stabilization part of things was done around mid-summer. But...
City Going Broke Because of Lawsuits and Settlements. Pickleball Noise, Next?
Los Angeles has budgeted $87 million for lawsuits and settlement for the fiscal year, which started in July. A month later, the City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $38.2 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly failed to meet...
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