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Mid City is not a city, it’s a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Santa Monica is an independent city and a neighbor of Los Angeles, it’s not "in" Los Angeles.

On one hand, Santa Monica is an independent city as pointed out in the beginning of the article, and (unfortunately), gets conflated into what is colloquially called "LA". On the other hand, the same article says Santa Monica is a neighborhood of LA. It can’t be both an independent city and a neighborhood of its neighbor, the City of Los Angeles. Lumping it all in as "LA" is a boon for lazy, biased "journalists" such as the authors of this article. I 100% agree that Santa Monica is part of Los Angeles County, however.

There’s a lot of potential here I really hope they don’t ruin this opportunity to take some of the attention away from Venice Beach and Santa Monica. There are other beaches just as good but remain hidden in plain sight. We will see what happens but there’s always so much red tape.

I did not know! Fascinating that rail freight was still moving through the neighborhood as late as the mid-80s. I remember the tracks along Santa Monica in Beverly Hills before they ripped them out.

That lumber yard has a small remnant of track left over from when the Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) delivered freight to industrial customers along Santa Monica Blvd during the late night hours.

In later years, until 1986, the line was operated by the Southern Pacific as their West Los Angeles branch (accessible via a long detour due to the PE’s old Hollywood↔Downtown track being abandoned): from Amoco Junction/Blue Line & E 25th St, then along today’s Expo Line until Sepulveda Blvd (Home Junction), then north along Sepulveda to Santa Monica Blvd where it turned east again to serve freight customers.

I moved back here in 1978. Best decision I’ve ever made. One observation: If you live in the basin, i.e. Hollywood, Santa Monica, then it’s best to live west of where you work. Also, the bus system, regardless of what Concerned Citizen1950 says, the MTA isn’t that bad. You get what you pay for. Moreover, they are fairly clean. I’ve taken buses off and on for over 30 years. The main draw-back is that the homeless ride for free.

And we still want to hang on to old zoning law. 7500 sqft parcel in R-3 zone in Santa Monica can only build 2 story with less than 7000 sqft (or 7 units) of APT and 25% has to be low income, no wonder the asking rent is $6K for new 2+2 apt. Double or triple the density for R-3 then we may have a solution.

What is most interesting to me is that all these renderings somehow remove the above ground power lines that line Santa Monica Blvd. Most of these units will look directly at them. I am all for new development but most of these are too dense for traffic

From what I remember, Monica Kaufman used to live here 10+ years ago.

Property tax increases are not strictly limited. The voters can add any amount of bonds and parcel taxes at any time they like, and they have. In Los Angeles, there have been at least EIGHT additional taxes and bonds placed on property owners in the past two decades.

And those taxes are generally not paid by renters. Rent control generally doesn’t permit landlords to break out taxes and assess them to tenants, and the jurisdiction that did for specific measures (Santa Monica) is proceeding to dismantle that option.