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Ventura and Santa Barbara County fire set records both in cost and acreage burned.

SoCal rain fall totals are not record breaking but were close. Sacramento did set a record.

So whatever you may have experienced previously, not on par with what is happening now.

You must stop blowing out all the walls and removing the ceiling joists. No sense of history, design, space planning, aesthetic. This works in some TINY Santa Monica shacks where they have no choice to gain a sense or space, but they have good design, aesthetic, and good sense on their side.

And dropping a slab of wannabe cararra on Home Depot cabinets. "Oh! (squeal)" And a janky subway tile backsplash in a kitchen you could have resurrected but decided, nah, let’s just hug the walls rather go the extra mile. And ooooh! 6" wide, faux hand-adzed flooring was all the rage in 1920’ bungalows.

Curbed you’ve got to stop promoting this crap. It makes it OK. "Airy"? "Airy"….

A million on something that someone will one day have to drop another couple hundred on to make it make sense again. Dark and old bungalowy, no, but at least make it make sense and whoever the fuck you people are who do this shit, stop ripping off people with these lazy flip/"remodels".

Curbed LA disagrees with you bro. "But the consensus is that it caters to slow-growthers, residents who aren’t totally opposed to development but who are fighting to keep the city from growing too much." And not sure what high-density you are talking about, "The maximum height for buildings would be 84 feet."

https://la.curbed.com/2017/4/14/15293204/downtown-community-plan-santa-monica-released

I guess a park would be better than what it is now, but besides the fact that Tongva Park is right there, I think it goes to show that the people running Santa Monica don’t completely get what makes for a desirable pedestrian experience. The walk along Main Street, especially at night, between the Promenade and Pico is still going to suck and split the city if it’s just a park. They should really put looking at putting buildings there, at bare minimum retail.

You can put buildings on top of freeway caps, in DC there’s a project to put towers on top of a highway cap, so if you can put towers on such a cap then you can certainly put the kinds of buildings that Santa Monica would approve on such a cap.

Yes, Kagel Canyon is a lovely place.
Yes, we are very glad that most people don’t know about it. We value our privacy.
If you don’t live here, please don’t come here. This is a residential neighborhood, not a tourist destination.
If you must visit and hike, go to Dexter Park during the day. Don’t park in front of our houses, or in front of the fire gates. A fire can start at any time of day, any day of the year, as recent events have proven. We are very touchy about strangers walking into the hills and carelessly throwing cigarettes into the brush, letting their off-leash dogs crap in the middle of the path, leaving their empty beer bottles in our flower beds, pointing their headlights in our windows, and making tons of noise.
So please, just stay away.

You mean, "policies that protect single family residential neighborhoods while encouraging high-density housing in other areas, and promoting adaptive reuse of commercial/industrial buildings"? That kind of sustainability? That’s Santa Monica.

"Even to many people in Los Angeles, Kagel Canyon and the surrounding mountain communities of Lopez Canyon and Little Tujunga were unknown neighborhoods" For the writers of Curbed LA who only recently moved to LA, yes. But for those of us who are actually from here, it is well known .

Please keep in mind, people, that this is Santa Monica…doing daring architecture and taking architectural "risks" is just not something they do; especially for such a prominent location. A "B" to (maybe) "B+" level Gehry building like this one is as daring as they’ll ever get. Santa Monica simply won’t do "statement" architecture. So, please get that expectation out of your heads.

So, it’s either this type of building or some super boring, "safe", truncated version of the snooze-job, glass and steel boxes that are going up everywhere in South Park in DTLA. Please raise your hand if you’re in love with boring boxes?! Even uninspired, derivative Gehry is still better than that.

Unfortunately Bonin still hasn’t learned. Venice Boulevard still hasn’t been restored, and Bonin continues to send out E-mails with laughably invalid statistics about travel times and endless cheerleading for this stupid initiative. He is consumed with this demented vision of turning a critical traffic conduit into Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade.

Another problem is higher government agencies abandoning their responsibilities to protect public infrastructure from pandering local politicians. CA did it with Venice Boulevard, and the result is the destruction of a taxpayer-owned resource and the theft of thousands of hours of people’s lives weekly.

Yes, the problem for this building has always been its lack of parking. However, the billboard on top has one of the largest audiences in LA (unmoving commuter traffic on eastbound Santa Monica at rush hour) and revenues from the billboard alone have made an empty building worthwhile. Will be interesting to see the fortunes made or broken when someone actually tried to do something with it.