At the last Board Meeting on October 3, the following Board Members were elected to the new Executive Board:
Reinhard Kargl, Chair Manju Raman, Vice Chair Rosemary Sostarich, Secretary Elizabeth Van Denburgh, Board Member At Large
We express our sincere thanks and appreciation to outgoing Chair, Laurence Eubank and Treasurer, Elizabeth Van Denburgh for their dedication and years of faithful service.
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Section from the article: YIMBYs
“have an unsophisticated and unnuanced philosophy that we should
build the maximum amount of housing regardless of displacement or
price point,” said Santa Monica Councilwoman Sue Himmelrich, who
along with her husband spent $125,000 of their own money supporting
affordable housing and homeless services initiatives.
Himmelrich
said YIMBYs’ “faux affordable housing policies” are designed to
hyper-gentrify high-cost Santa Monica. YIMBYs aligned themselves with
developer-backed political action committees that helped defeat Santa
Monica’s anti-development Measure LV last November, she added.
“They’re
not independent thinkers at all. … They show up at so many
meetings, clapping for developers,” said Jill Stewart, executive
director of Coalition to Preserve LA, which backed Los Angeles’
Measure S, which would have imposed a two-year moratorium on
mega-projects.
“They’re
against single-family homes, and they’re very much in favor of
higher density, and they’re acting as a front for developers,”
Stewart added. “ … They’re from the supply-and-demand side. The
say, if you build as much luxury housing (as you can), it will
trickle down. That’s never worked.”
Located between 4th and 5th Streets south of Arizona Avenue in the downtown area of the City of Santa Monica, the property consists of a little over 2.5 acres and is a "Resident-owned" property.
The City of Santa Monica is currently proposing to build a massive mixed-use commercial development project on this "Resident-owned" property.
The proposed project consists of the following:
12-story (148-ft tall) high-rise
420,000 sq. ft. of total building (nearly the same size as the Santa Monica Place Mall)
225 room hotel
200,000 sq. ft. of commercial work-space
40,000 square feet of retail
48 affordable housing residential apartment units
Impacts to Residents:
A commercial development located on this "Resident-owned" property would eliminate the potential for a grand 2.5-acre downtown green-space park for generations to come.
Severely alter the Santa Monica skyline.
Creating shadows from the 12 story (148-foot) tall structure.
Last Tuesday developer NMS Properties and Neil Shekhter, its founder and CEO, were found by the Los Angeles Superior Court to have committed “massive, intentional, coordinated efforts to destroy evidence,” “fraud,” and “perjury.
Santa Monica tops statewide list for a variety of jobs:
Police Chief: $478,000, highest statewide.
Police Sergeant: $475,546 highest statewide.
At $393,603, $385,000 and $380,000, Santa Monica police sergeants also occupied the 4th, 6th and 7th highest spots on the statewide list.
Deputy Police Chief: $455,914, highest statewide.
Assistant City Attorney: $442,414, highest statewide.
Assistant City Manager: $440,661, highest statewide.
City Attorney: $439,969, 2nd highest statewide.
Farmers’ Market Supervisor: $142,903.
Assistant City Librarian:$220,558.
This excess is pervasive throughout the City, with Santa Monica outspending its peers in total department wide spending as well: (more)
It’s called “the list,” a compilation of proposed building projects being tracked by City planners, or all plans in Santa Monica's development pipeline. (more)
September 26, 2017 -- Two of the largest projects in Santa Monica’s development pipeline will face referendums to stop them if the City Council ultimately approves versions approximating the nearly 1 million total square feet being proposed, a leader from the slow-growth movement said Monday. (more)
The field and track at Lincoln Middle School are currently under renovation, with plans for reopening by January 2018. When reopened, the general public will continue to have access when school is not in session, or permitted sports are taking place.
Wilmont is working to promote the interests of our residents, such as speaking on behalf of our neighborhood at City Council and Planning Commission meetings and creating new committees to keep you updated on the big issues facing our city. Please take a look at the committees list below and consider spending a few hours a month and taking a more active role in our city’s future.
-DEVELOPMENT-Big Projects like the Miramar, etc.
-TRANSPORTATION-Traffic, Parking, Big Blue Bus, etc.
