21 New Condos Planned At 21st Street

Dan Charney October 17, 2012 at 07:06 pm

Why are we losing more of our soul and style so someone with money can make more? Why is this being approved? We need all the small older units we can save- especially if they are rent controlled. The money the tenants receive from the Ellis process will buy them nothing in this city. Zero. And, Community Core is a joke for most. Not surprised this is happening. Just another example of another planner who favors developers. Too bad.

Richard B October 17, 2012 at 08:46 pm

Thanks. Just what we need.
Vote out all City Council Incumbents they have ruined this city with letting the developers take over. They have no concern for the actual residents. Get rid of the Bums !

SantaMonicaNative October 18, 2012 at 05:35 pm

Lets just hope the apartments are not like all of hose ugly, ugly box buildings that seem to be taking over Santa Monica. Everywhere you go you see the ugly modern boxes that take the place of the typical flat 50's apartments. These buildings say nothing more than cheap, poorly constructed and just plain ugly. I thought the City had an Architectural Review board, if so they are blind. Soon Santa Monica will be the city of ugly green boxes. Shame. Explain to me how all these muliple units have no effect on the traffic and parking when you add 50 or more people to a neighborhood?

Jill October 18, 2012 at 06:44 pm

I am afraid that Santa Parking Meter is going to become another Westwood village.
I'ts soul ripped out. And where is all this money going???. I have one close living in Orange Country, one in Thousand Oaks both pay 2 percent less sales tax. Everytime they come to Santa Parking Meter, they ask "how can you live here?.

Brenda Barnes October 19, 2012 at 07:36 am

So true. The first culprit, though, is the Rent Control Board, which has done nothing to try to save rental housing by making some kind of deal so the City does not allow far more square footage to be built on sites than is there now. For decades no one would destroy old buildings to build new ones because cities zoned areas for less building than was there already. Now it's always more, more, more. The ultimate responsibility, though, is the Council's, and all the bums should be thrown out, just as Richard B says below. Santa Monica for Santa Monicans. Vote for anyone but the two Davises and O'Day!.

Brenda Barnes October 19, 2012 at 07:49 am

My husband Peter Naughton is a Cambridge University-educated urban planner with 31 years' experience on three continents working with responsible developers. To help residents of Village Trailer Park stop closure of the Park, we reviewed the EIRs for three projects planned to add a MILLION square feet of buildings in less than two blocks, with two-story underground parking structures under each. It turns out the area is a "medium to high" liquefaction danger area, as bad as the beachfront, and the particular site of Village Trailer Park is over 90% "high" danger. We have a major fault 700 FEET south of the City border, less than two miles away.
What these people are approving is not just unwise, unlawful, cheap, and ugly, a future blight. It's beginning to become criminal. When the streets are beyond the density level (D on a scale of A to F), which the Municipal Code says is unlawful, and the general plan (LUCE) says projects must be "no new trips," and yet these projects were over 2,000 new car trips a day EACH but the Planning Commission either has already or will certify the EIRs, it is because the Council insists the City go in this way--the developers' way. As more and more pedestrians and bicyclists are killed on the streets. someone is going to win a lawsuit that takes all the money these profligate spenders thought constituted "community benefits" sufficient to approve these obscene projects. Save our City. Vote them all out now.