The Hollywood Community Plan - From Bad to Worse
LA’s Vanished History of Population and Economic Expansion : In lieu of updating the General Plan Framework Element, the legally adopted citywide plan for the entire city of Los Angeles, based on the latest 2010 census data, the Department of City Planning is slowly updating 35 local community plans on a scattershot basis, based on old census data. While this a methodologically shoddy approach to planning Los Angeles in an era of economic hard times, budget cutbacks, certain natural disasters, peak oil, and climate change, this choice does not result from politicians who snuck out of workshops on municipal governance or planners who skipped a critical lecture on urban general plans. In both cases, sloppy planning should not be confused with lack of knowledge. The real reason for this piecemeal approach to planning Los Angeles for the early 21 st Century is that the old data still depicts Los Angeles as a young, growing metropolis. These data portray a city that has d