Los Angeles Planning Director Michael LoGrande tells TPR about plans to merge the Los Angeles Building and Safety Department with the Department of City Planning.
Inglewood Mayor James Butts discusses the Crenshaw Line, relations with LAX, and the importance of Redevelopment in kick-starting Inglewood’s Forum and Hollywood Park Tomorrow projects with The Planning Report.
TPR's third exclusive interview of a new arrival to Los Angeles, an especially well-informed political and humanistic observer of local government, TJ Plunkitt, a direct descendant of the infamous George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall.
Laurie Becklund, a writer and project consultant as well as a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication and Leadership, and a longtime resident of Hollywood, writes about her experience investigating her concerns around the Millennium Hollywood development.
Civic leaders and TPR readers look beyond the mayoral campaign rhetoric to share what the next Mayor of Los Angeles must have on his or her agenda in order to meet the increasingly stressed needs of the city's residents, workers, infrastructure, environment, and fiscal condition.
Los Angeles World Airports executive director Gina Marie Lindsey walks TPR through the status of the LAX specific plan amendment, which won recent approvals by the LA Board of Airport Commissioners and the LA County Airport Land Use Commission, two hurdles on a long course towards approval by the Los Angeles City Council.
Gary Gero, President of Climate Action Reserve, discusses his organization's work drafting carbon offset protocols for the California Air Resources Board's cap-and-trade program.