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Parking Wars Part 2

May 16, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Last week’s SMa.r.t. article described the collision of two new State mandates: the first requiring the construction of 9000 new...

News, Real Estate

SMO (So Many Options) Part 2

April 29, 2023 SM.a.r.t

SMart (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) Last week’s column was Part 1. If you did not have the...

News, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: Reframing the Murals

April 8, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Last year the City Council started a process to reframe the murals in City Hall. Many people do not even...

Opinion

SMa.r.t. Column: I Told You So

March 28, 2023 SM.a.r.t

On January17, 2015 SMa.r.t. posted a prophetic article in the Daily Press written by Ron Goldman FAIA advocating maintaining a...

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SMa.r.t. Column: Going Bare

March 20, 2023 SM.a.r.t

(part 3 of 3 articles) Every City faces periodic interruptions to its normal life. Some interruptions in our City are...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: The Urgency to Retrofit Earthquake-Deficient Buildings

March 6, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Recent early-morning tremors off the Malibu coast, and the huge and terrible earthquake in Turkey and Syria have made us...

News, Opinion

SMa.r.t. Column: Reinforcing the Future – A Revisit

February 27, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Six years go we discussed, in these pages, the city’s then-renewed earthquake-retrofit rules. At the time we argued that the...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: Santa Monica City Council – Planners, Politicians, or Developers?

February 19, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Santa Monica – a progressive city 20 years ago, a chaotic city today! A city that is struggling for its...

Opinion

SMa.r.t. Column: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

February 16, 2023 SM.a.r.t

The picture shown above is the future of Santa Monica. Large tall buildings along the Boulevards and Avenues plus Downtown...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: To a Better Housing Element

February 3, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Your City is busy rewriting much of its zoning code to implement our new Housing Element as demanded by the...

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Parking Wars Part 2

SMO (So Many Options) Part 2

SMa.r.t. Column: Reframing the Murals

SMa.r.t. Column: I Told You So

SMa.r.t. Column: Going Bare

SMa.r.t. Column: The Urgency to Retrofit Earthquake-Deficient Buildings

SMa.r.t. Column: Reinforcing the Future – A Revisit

SMa.r.t. Column: Santa Monica City Council – Planners, Politicians, or Developers?

SMa.r.t. Column: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

SMa.r.t. Column: To a Better Housing Element

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