While Ponte Vista is the main focus of this website, we realize there are other development issues that are of interest and affect, directly or indirectly, the reasons for opposing this housing project as proposed and supporting reasonable, realistic, responsible and respectful development in our communities.  Many of them deal with infrastructure demands that developments, no matter where they are proposed, will impose on current infrastructure. Whether traffic, air quality, utilities, services, schools, etc., these demands need to be considered, with ever increasing scrutiny, on the ultimate affect on the quality of life in our communities. Just click on the headlines to view the articles.

• Nobody’s Listening … Still
  

• Judge Invalidates Controversial Densification Bill
  

• Judge Tosses City’s Density Bonus Law
  

• Bracing for Traffic Chaos at LA's Schools
  

• Seeking the Light in the Expo Rail Line

• L.A. water agency ordered to return nearly $30 million to customers
  

• Paramedic calls are a tax on beach cities
  

• High-rises dwarf options for downtown L.A.
  

• L.A.'s water supply is falling
• Mayor calls for mandatory rationing and higher rates for those who don't conserve
  

• LA City ContrParamedic calls are a tax on beach citiesParamedic calls are a tax on beach citiesoller releases performance audit of LA City Planning
  Cites lack of overall oversight and absence of coordination between departments.
  

• If We don’t Speak Up Our Neighborhoods will Grind to a Halt
  

• Planning Commission Chair resigns. Cites successes, failures and goals
  

• L.A. Planning Commission Hopes New Principles Will Help Them to ''Do Real Planning"

• Do Real Planning

• Number One is a Matter of Opinion

• Wendy Gruel: Traffic is LA's #1 issue

• What Happens When a Lobbyist takes a Commissioner to lunch?

• Information is Power for Neighborhood Councils
  

• Commissioner Argues for Exemptions—Fails to Mention Possible Conflict

• Yet Another Community Group Sues the City Over Lapse in Annual Infrastructure Reports
  

• Another State Law Broken
  

• Housing Construction Meets The Ultimate Enemy: Water

• Housing Projects Nosedive
  

• Full Disclosure by Developers would Help Level the Playing Field for LA
  

• Mayor's Housing Plan A Tough Sell

• Viewing the Developer War from the Trenches
  

• Playa del Rey Neighbors hear Planning Commission
  head about getting involved early in local issues

• Usher on Planning: It’s Something You Do,
  Not Something that’s Done to You
  

• Usher to NCs: Appeal, Appeal, Appeal
  

• One Citizen’s Journey through the City Bureaucracy Maze
  

• The City doesn't have a plan

• Developers reap huge returns based on the tax payers contributions
  

• Firm boasts about mining tax dollars
  

• Usher to Grassroots Planners

• Beach Pollution Protections Voided

• The Bigger Picture
  

• A Role Model for L.A. - Chicago?
  

• City of Los Angeles, Just Say NO
  

• Does Los Angeles City Follow its General Plan Transportation Policies?
  

• City Planner's remarks at LA City Traffic and Transportation Day
  

• Traffic Congestion Costing $12 Billion a Year
  

• Solutions to Gridlock Depend on Which Mistress You Want to Serve

• NCs Getting Smarter More Influential on Planning

• Builder Blight The Beat Goes On

• San Gabriel Valley members of Congress move to slow congestion pricing freeway plan
  

• The Coming City Superstorm
  

• City on the Hill
  

• Are housing projects crowding Torrance?

• Don't Make Bad Law Worse
  

• Another high-rise condo for San Pedro?
  

• Time for a Grown Up Talk on LA Housing
  

• Growth: When is enough, enough

• Mayor’s Housing Vision for LA

• Still the reigning champ of traffic delays

• In L.A. traffic remains an ongoing calamity

• Take This Car and Shove It

• A Denser L.A.

• Peddling Smart Growth

• Smarting Over Growth

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