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Santa Monica’s Future: Will Developers or Residents Rule?

01/15/2022 9:18 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

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But the city and its downtown have become a cash cow for developers. Santa Monica has spent over 20 years swimming uphill in a failed marriage with the development community – agreeing to increasing land values, building heights and higher rents in exchange for a handful of “inclusionary” affordable units! And in addition, Santa Monica’s residents, not the developers, are left to pay for the increased infrastructure this requires!

Santa Monica Vons’s Development Sees Design Changes

01/15/2022 9:14 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Developer Related California’s mixed-use apartment complex is a redevelopment of the site of a Vons grocery store into a five to eight-story building close to the Metro E line station. This proposed development is located between 7th Street, Broadway and Lincoln Boulevard and would include a total of 280 one, two and three-bedroom apartments with 354 underground parking spaces for occupants and visitors.

Judge Grants Preliminary Injuction Halting Parking Structure Demolition

01/14/2022 11:00 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

LA County Superior Court Judge Michelle L Beckloff on Thursday granted the Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association's (SMBOA) request for a preliminary injunction but did not order the City to continue to operate the parking structure.

Proposed California law would require landlords to own property for at least five years before evicting tenants

01/13/2022 10:36 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

A new bill is headed for a committee hearing on Wednesday that could change the process for evictions.

AB 854 is a new piece of legislation meant to protect renters from serial evictors and is being introduced by Bay Area Democratic Assemblymember Alex Lee.

The main change it would make is that landlords must own a property for at least five years before they can use the Ellis Act to evict someone.

Newsom’s proposed budget brings more local funding to address homelessness

01/13/2022 10:24 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Of key interest to Santa Monica is the Governor’s continued commitment to addressing homelessness in light of last year’s history investment of $12 billion, which he seeks to bolster this year with additional funding for increasing shelter capacity, building supportive and affordable housing and clearing encampments.

Housing Partner Selected for Future Affordable Housing on City-Owned Fourth Street Parcel

01/13/2022 10:21 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

At last night’s meeting, the Santa Monica City Council green lit an exclusive negotiation agreement to negotiate the terms and conditions for development of affordable housing on the City-owned parcel at 1318-20 Fourth Street, which is currently occupied by public Parking Structure 3 in Downtown Santa Monica.

THE INFORMATION WARS - Charles Andrews

01/12/2022 1:23 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The neighborhood folks especially, Ocean Park, Sunset Park and Pico Neighborhoods, have watched patiently and mostly silently as our City Fathers, and … Mothers, have given piece by piece approval to the Great Wall of Lincoln, of which this will be another (huge) brick in the wall, a piece needed to hop down the street to the block-long gaping open pit that will become – more apartments.

Santa Monica to Begin Accepting Applications for Families Displaced

01/12/2022 1:14 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Santa Monica will soon begin accepting applications for families displaced from the city in the 1950s and 1960s due to the construction of both 1-10 Freeway and Civic Center.

Beginning January 18, 2022, the City of Santa Monica is opening applications for the Below Market Housing (BMH) pilot program for historically displaced households.

California getting additional $68 million in federal rent relief dollars

01/11/2022 10:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The U.S. Treasury Department approved an additional $68.7 million for California rent relief programs as part of a $239.9 million reallocation from states that have been slow in distributing assistance to pandemic-impacted tenants, state and federal officials said Friday, Jan. 7.

Council to review plans for housing development at Parking Structure 3

01/10/2022 9:56 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Opponents of the new development argued PS3, located at the intersection of 4th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard, was a pivotal piece of visitor-serving infrastructure, providing access to area businesses and the farmers market. Proponents said the aging structure required millions of dollars worth of repairs and parking spaces were already accounted for in the 2013 rebuild of Parking Structure 6, which includes 400 additional spaces.

In June, SMBOA filed a lawsuit in an attempt to keep the structure from being demolished.