2021 - LA's planning year in review

Big city planning departments, like LA’s, have abdicated their broad role. Instead they limit themselves to regulating private real estate projects, while ignoring infrastructure and the climate crisis. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/23433-la-s-2021-planning-year-in-review-is-the-glass-mostly-full-or-mostly-empty

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