Community Planning

January 14, 2022

Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand on Reasserting Local Control Over Neighborhood Planning

TPR interviewed Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand on how his city and constituents are responding to the new state laws usurping local control over neighborhood planning and zoning and eliminating single-family zoning statewide.

June 20, 2019

Lack of Adequate Community Planning—Not NIMBYs—Drives Opposition to New Development

TPR revisits a timely 2017 conversation between Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Christopher Hawthorne on growth, density, and infrastructure.

May 27, 2019

San Diego Mayoral Candidate Barbara Bry on Addressing Affordability Without Devaluing Community Planning

San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry discusses the ongoing housing crisis and her vision for dense, neighborhood-driven transit-oriented communities in San Diego.

November 30, 2018

NYC Planning Director on Linking Rezoning & Neighborhood Planning to Build Housing and Create Jobs

New York Planning Director Marisa Lago offers a unique and thoughtful perspective on how a city as dynamic as New York can prepare for a rapidly changing future.

August 27, 2018

City Planning Director Bertoni on the Promise & Status of re:code LA

In the first part of a two-part interview, Vince Bertoni updates readers on how the city's new zoning code is being implemented to community plans.

July 17, 2018

Sissy Trinh on the Value of Community Input in Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan

Sissy Trinh, founder and executive director of the Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA), discusses how lessons from the city's first TOD plan apply to current community planning efforts, especially the LA River.

April 9, 2018

Carlyle Hall Opines on LA City’s Forfeiture of Local Control Over ADUs

Land use attorney Carlyle Hall takes on the lack of leadership by Los Angeles officials in establish local ADU controls.

March 15, 2018

Zev Yaroslavsky on Scott Wiener’s SB 827: The Triumph of WIMBYs

Former Los Angeles County Supervisor and City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky responds to the language presented in Sen. Wiener's SB 827.

June 28, 2017

Modernizing LAX & Planning Los Angeles

Sean Burton, president of the Board of Airport Commissioners and CEO of CityView, explains the complete transformation slated for LAX.

June 26, 2017

Culver City Hosts Mobility Visioning Process Involving Stakeholders, Architects & Planners

As Culver City seeks to increase density along the public transportation corridors, Councilmember Thomas Small and Craig Nelson of Steer Davies Gleave share their outlook on the current public process.

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