November 4, 2025
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It’s Time to Reevaluate Scooter Rules

When an elderly lady tripped over a scooter lying on the sidewalk a year ago and fractured her hip and elbow, a perfect storm of inadequate City enforcement and dubious corporate behavior in Santa Monica […]

SMa.r.t. Column: Stay The Course

How would you like to live in a small, already built out, city that, every year,  was building more than its fair share of market-rate and affordable housing, that was trying to reach its water […]

Is Our City Riding a Trojan Horse – Part 2

As discussed in Part 1 of our article two weeks ago (https://smmirror.com/2019/12/is-our-city-council-riding-a-trojan-horse), Santa Monica will be required by state law to add 9,000 units, including 6,900 affordable within 8 years – increasing our current population […]

The Virtues of a Low-Rise City

[Please note: Ron Goldman’s article from last week has a Part 2, which will be published next week] For several years, SMa.r.t. (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow ) has been promoting the notable […]

Is Our City Council Riding a Trojan Horse?

The demand for housing is becoming louder and infinite. But is this tsunami real or a myth, a Trojan horse? Following is a 2 part article exploring this endless need and questioning the alarming lack […]

Rising Waters and Five Suggestions

[Nearly four year ago, our colleague Mario Fonda-Bonardi prepared this cogent overview of the local impacts of sea-level rise. It’s as urgent and relevant today as it was then, if not more so.] Dr. David […]

SMa.r.t. Column: The Grumble in the Jungle

A love letter to the Council. Not. Last week we wrote about what we at SMa.r.t., individually, were thankful for in our beachfront town. This week we thought the Council might take a moment to […]

SMa.r.t. Column: Giving Thanks

Members of SMa.r.t. pitched in to list their thoughts this Thanksgiving. “I’m thankful that, living here in Ocean Park, I can still take a short walk to, and along the water’s edge on the beach, […]

SMa.r.t. Column: Rocks Ahead

When a ship with full sails approaches a coastline in a dense fog, you can often hear the waves crashing on the rocks ahead of you, but when you can finally see them, it’s already […]