Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2019

"Sierra La Verne Country Club is closing Sunday, here’s what the city is doing in response"

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Daily Bulletin : “We can’t require them to continue to irrigate everything, but there are certain things that we can do under our current ...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

South Philadelphia councilman introduced a bill "that would ban balconies and bay windows"

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Philly : For some homeowners in the market for newly constructed homes, balconies and bump-out bay windows offer two things that a traditi...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

"Meet the anonymous artist installing bus benches at neglected stops on L.A.’s Eastside"

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LAT : On a Sunday afternoon earlier this month, I find him at Valley and Soto, laying out slabs of wood and power tools. He is decked out ...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

"The Camp Fire was inevitable. It is the event that so many dreaded for so long."

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ER : People prepared. Fire prevention officials planned. They drilled. They worked with homeowners. They invented fire-safe councils and F...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

"A former Texaco station in Silver Lake could be on its way to landmark status"

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Curbed : That was unwelcome news for the property’s owner, who applied for permits earlier this year to demolish the gas station and repla...
Friday, May 18, 2018

"'In the 1950s,' Bertaud writes, 'China established a regulation requiring that at least one room in each apartment receive a minimum of one hour of sunshine on the day of the winter solstice, December 21'"

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“ even though the rule no longer applies, its impact on the spatial structure of Chinese cities remains.”
Saturday, April 21, 2018

"A condemned house in Northern California with holes in the roof and mildew in the pipes sold last month for $1.23 million"

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LAT : The three-bedroom, two-bath house closed $230,000 over the asking price on March 30, Gallegos said. "There are so many 20-yea...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Old-guard environmentalists are fighting new housing in California

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ML : Although [the director of Sierra Club California] says she supports infill development around mass transit, it’s hard for her to locat...
Monday, November 27, 2017

"[Marin] County officials recently rejected all 10 applications for licenses to operate medical marijuana dispensaries"

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SFC : That’s despite the fact that nearly 70 percent of Marin voters approved Proposition 64, the 2016 initiative that legalized recreatio...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Anti-development propaganda

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Growth opponents’ least convincing argument: “...think of the tourists!!” pic.twitter.com/oPEeUWySgL — Terrifying Density (@SFyimby) Octo...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

"Thousands displaced by Northern California's wildfires now face the region's housing shortage"

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LAT : Even before the fire, 15,000 people were on wait lists for Burbank Housing homes. ... A passenger rail service connecting cities...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Charlotte residents fighting to make tiny homes illegal

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CA : People who live nearby have complained to the City Council that the tiny houses don’t fit in with the surrounding community, and coul...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

"Despite clear risks, Santa Rosa neighborhood that burned down was exempt from fire regulations"

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LAT : Because it was outside the officially mapped “very severe” hazard zone, more than five miles to the east, Coffey Park was exempt fro...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Link roundup

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1. "Is Celebrity Photographer Tyler Shields Inspired, Or Copying Other Artists ?" This level of success is surprising, given th...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Link roundup

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1.   LA Times : City officials are building a small park in Harbor Gateway with the main purpose of forcing 33 registered sex offenders to...