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Is City Government Listening to You?

May 21, 2023 SM.a.r.t

Sometimes, it might feel like City Council members or local government staff aren’t paying attention to the concerns of residents....

News, Opinion, Real Estate

New Program Can Help Protect Southern California Homes in the Event of an Earthquake

May 13, 2023 Staff Writer

Residents Have Until May 31 To Apply For Seismic Retrofit Grants By Janiele Maffei, Chief Mitigation Officer for the California...

Opinion

SMO (So Many Options) Part 1

April 20, 2023 Staff Writer

SMart (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) The volume of discussion around the options for Santa Monica Airport (SMO)...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: Reusing Buildings for the Benefit of All

April 2, 2023 Staff Writer

[Almost two years ago our colleague Michael Jolly prepared this analysis of the benefits and risks of repurposing existing buildings,...

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...

Opinion, Real Estate

Column: SB 9 Ended R-1 Zoning, but It’s Not Meeting Goals

March 11, 2023 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias More than a year after it took effect, the landmark housing density law known as SB 9...

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

Column: The Inevitable Conversions Begin Multiplying

February 25, 2023 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias It’s a phenomenon from New York to Dallas to Fresno and Los Angeles, one that seemed inevitable...

Opinion, Real Estate

Column: The Fantasy World of California Housing Policy

February 20, 2023 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias If you’re looking for sure things among bills under consideration in the state Legislature, think of one...

Category: Opinion

Is City Government Listening to You?

New Program Can Help Protect Southern California Homes in the Event of an Earthquake

SMO (So Many Options) Part 1

SMa.r.t. Column: Reusing Buildings for the Benefit of All

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

Column: SB 9 Ended R-1 Zoning, but It’s Not Meeting Goals

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

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

Column: The Inevitable Conversions Begin Multiplying

Column: The Fantasy World of California Housing Policy

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