Updating the Hollywood Community Plan. Tragedy in 2012 and farce in 2020.
Updating the Hollywood Community Plan. Tragedy in 2012 and farce in 2020. By Dick Platkin* https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20776-updating-the-hollywood-community-plan-tragedy-in-2012-and-farce-in-2020 If you forgot that history repeats itself , first as tragedy and the second time as farce, you only need to look at City Hall’s repeated efforts to update the Hollywood Community Plan. Despite two decades of updating, Superior Court Judge Allan Goodman overturned the 2012 Update for being fundamentally and fatally flawed . Judge Goodman offered these reasons : · The Update was based on outdated demographic data. · The Update failed to consider the need to expand municipal services and infrastructure. · The Update did not consider its environmental impacts. When the City Council adopted the 2012 Hollywood Up