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from experience I can tell you that the City of Rancho Palos Verdes planning and building/safety dept. procedure for getting anything approved (from a bathroom addition to a new building) is the most f%&$ed up process on the planet. Their rules and procedure are the equivalent of "waterboarding" the unfortunate who apply for a building permit. I’m all for bells, but only in RPV do citizens have the arrogance to sue a church for wanting to ring bells and guess what, the clowns at City Hall have brought all these headaches on themselves… next week, RPV citizens sue tourists for breathing RPV oxygen… whattabunchamorons!

@Joshua: With all due respect, the fact that someone wants to spend several hundred million dollars in HOPES that a team will come is nuts – it is beyond irrational. Others have looked into this and found it foolish and backed out – are they all stupid and Ed knows the real scoop?

Like every other massive project, he will cry foul at some point, the ask for money to finish. Many cities have seen this before. No one spends their own money on projects that might fail, the borrow it from others. The cynicism is more about the long standing tradition of bait and switch. That and discussing something that will never happen in terms as though it has.

The culture, food, and technology in Koreatown are exciting.

Nothing like small town living in the big city.

This is where Harrison Ford will obtain his pho and soju for dinner in 2017.

(also Vangelis will be played in all elevators and doctors offices by decree)

Forbe’s references The Forum as great entertainment venue in K-Town?

The Wiltern has been quite kick ass the past 5-7 years. Where is the Forum. Is it even called that still [where did the editors go nowadays… wink -ed)?

Buy now in Sunny Luxury High Rise Future Happy Glass Tower Garden LA!

When they start drilling for oil on Wilshire and Vermont the flames will shoot into the sky and the video billboard corridor will twinkle for miles!

#9: How do you know where I live? Are you a stalker?

Regarding my kids: We followed an administrator to a new SAS program (gifted program) at Hollywood High. At the time my daughter started high school, Fairfax had revolving door principals, and I really love Hollywood’s principal. My daughter graduates this week, and will be attending UC Berkeley this fall (great college counselor).

Fairfax is a great school too. They’ve had their new principal, Ed Zubiate, for three years now, and he is really great. He got the marching band back, has done beautification, and has plans for small learning communities and big capital improvements. Had my daughter not already been at Hollywood High, my son would have gone to Fairfax this year. They have a lot of friends who attend Fairfax, LACES, Hamilton, etc., and they are all doing well.

"past performance does not indicate future value"

John Quigley, William Fischel, Ed Glaeser, Robert Ellickson, and a few other notable urban economists have written extensively on how the surge in home values in California and the Northeast during the ’70s and ’80s owed more to a dramatic tightening in the regulatory environment than anything else. Homeowners in most municipalities acted essentially as cartels to pass land use restrictions (downzoning, growth moratoria, etc.) that vastly reduced development in middle- and upper-class areas; these allowed incumbent homeowners like the Quinns to capture almost all of the benefits of the torrid economic growth that occurred in the state during the ’70s and ’80s.

I seriously doubt that the sort of across-the-board property appreciation that occurred in California during Tim’s parents’ lifetime will happen in any of ours.

While I’m excited for development on the vacant parcel at Wilshire and Vermont, I wish the CRA and/or the City Council had some mechanism for considering good urban design (can anyone encourage an architect/planner/designer to run for political office? calling Ed Reyes! remember your design principles?). It’s not the towers I have issues with (which will be sweet), it’s the streetscape. Do you think the "open space" is actually going to be functional? It’ll probably be similar to the RFK memorial park in front of the old Ambassador – cool in theory, but practically useless. When will we learn to build to the lot line and reduce/eliminate curb cuts? I don’t think this zone requires any yards/setbacks. The developer across the street seems to have semi-understood.

I wonder if there are any parts of LA that are actually happy to be in it? More and more I think the place is just too big to be governed effectively.

But here in Hollywood, the police need to give fewer parking tickets and WAY more tickets for bad driving. Especially around the W. All kinds of bad behavior going on there. Also they need to ticket reckless peds who run out in traffic. You know they’re still going to try to sue if someone hits them. Since when did everyone decide they were too "special" to obey basic rules? (It was some time during the 90s.) Special ed is more like it. No offense meant to people with actual mental handicaps.

I wouldn’t call this choice "half-a$$ed", I would call this a "necessary evil". With the 30/10 Initiative (it’s looking good), we traded 1/3 of a subway line extension for 11 other projects throughout the county, including the Regional Connector, which is going to be super useful.

Congratulations to Metro, and to everyone in Los Angeles! This is HUGE!

(And yes, NUMBYs in BH are simply low information people who need to be educated. Metro did a fine job on their last tunnelling project (that would be the Eastside Gold Line extension), with no damage to buildings or streets.)

Also, let’s keep on Metro’s back to build more portals at 7th/Metro. They owe us that much since they gutted the full station, and portals will be cheaper by a factor of ten.

OC11, that was an extremely ignorant remark, and correcting it does not seem too much like and "attack". Using the same methodology that led you to consider yourself "attack(ed)", one can colculde that you "attacked" LA with such an incorrect and loaded statement.

Chicago may have a larger CBD, otherwise there is no justification for both metro area/cities coming close in any other category. In fact, you can fit the entire city of chicago (including the densest areas) into the central portion of LA, which will still have a higher population density than Chicago.

Maybe you arent too well versed in the city of LA (and from your comments, over versed in OC), because although it lacks elegant density, the central several dozen miles of the urban core are extremely dense.

Bro, I’m telling you bro this show is gonna be sick bro! Me and my Persian homies are gonna be at the club that you can’t get into because you don’t dress in the finest silk shirts like us and we’re gonna watch the sh!t out of the first episode! Poppin’ Goose and bragging about who has the largest collection of Affliction and Ed Hardy shirts baby! That’s how we Persians do!

And don’t get me started on my sick ride bro! I’ve got a 2007 Mercedes Benz S-class bro! Yeah its got 274,000 miles on it and technically it belongs to my mom but its sittin’ on 22’s bro! And I can borrow it anytime I want so its totally cool! Ryan Seacrest you a genius bro! Anytime you wanna hang at Supper Club let me know. Amir, the bouncer, is my third cousin. I’ll totally hook you up!