NYT: A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Los Angeles – How Was This Missed by the Los Angeles Times?
Earthquake engineers at a conference in Los Angeles were told to warn the public that buildings over 20 stories in Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco could collapse in a big …
Outcry in Hollywood Saves Huge Shade Trees on Cherokee from Destruction — For Now
Widespread anger at Los Angeles City government’s failure for three years to adopt best practices to save large public shade trees while repairing sidewalk cracks finally erupted, in Hollywood, last …
Los Angeles City Planning Commission Approves Diesel Truck Smog in an Angry Family Neighborhood
(Note: Under Los Angeles City Planning Commission President David Ambrose, L.A. has taken a distinct turn against working-class neighborhoods and environmental equity. Here is the latest example, from the respected …
Stop Urban Cleansing, Save the Affordable Historic Apartments at Crossroads
At a press conference on July 10, Coalition to Preserve LA stood with tenants of the Las Palmas Courtyard Apartments, Selma recording studio, members of the L.A. Tenants Union Hollywood …
Should Los Angeles Homeless Housing Cost Half a Million Dollars ($500,000) Per Unit?
KCRW’s week-long series on homelessness raises stark truths about the cost of building HHH units for the homeless, which the Coalition to Preserve LA has been shouting about for months. This …
Take L.A.’s Tree Survey and Save our Crucial Urban Tree Canopy: Survey’s Closed
Watch this space for Dudek’s report coming in December. Coalition to Preserve LA calls on the L.A. City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti to rebuild our dying urban tree canopy. …
Oppose Millennium Hollywood, the Earthquake-Prone Twin Skyscrapers Renamed “Hollywood Center”
Get ready to fight the renamed Millennium Hollywood twin towers, which the badly tainted developers, Millennium Partners, are rebranding as “Hollywood Center,” without their name on it because they’re now infamous on …
Neighborhood Council Alliance Backs Parker Center for Homeless Housing
Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition (LANCC) praised the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the Coalition for the ballot initiative to save Parker Center from demolition and convert it to housing for …