Tag: SMa.r.t. thinking

The Planning Commission is currently reviewing the Downtown Specific Plan. This document will govern what is built in the downtown ...

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Tip O'Neill coined the phrase, “All politics are Local.” Indeed, he's correct. Certainly residents ...

Santa Monica does not have a housing crisis. The Southern Counties Association of Governments (SCAG) target for our City is ...

Curb your DA's. No, we're not talking about District Attorneys, but rather the propensity of our planning staff to negotiate ...

  A recent SMa.r.t. column on sustainability compared the City of Santa Monica's residential and commercial sectors' progress towards the ...

Last week's SMa.r.t. column was about sustainability. This week we look at another part of sustainability: surviving inevitable crises that ...

In 2013, Santa Monica was named the nation's fifth-most sustainable city according to a prominent national organization dedicated to sustainable ...

Late this morning, this writer arrived at a bus stop at 17th Street and Montana Avenue, intending to travel to ...

  Anybody wanting to live in Santa Monica today has a limited number of housing types from which to choose. ...

In an annual tradition the month of July was celebrated nationally as Parks & Recreation month. From their inception, parks ...