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if only there were a movie theater complex nearby that has been vacant for decades...
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Often find myself dreaming about the 4 with bus-only lanes
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Weāre all effectively subsidizing this mansion.
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Makes sense. Your configuration would be so much safer. Itās always a bit of a clencher biking through there š¬
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This would be such a massive improvement. I wonder if the right turn lanes not having to yield to traffic would encourage higher than desired vehicle speeds, especially at ped crossings.
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Quiet quitting is hard
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At the very least it would be worth considering for San Vicente, which is comically wide. Looks like it would almost entirely fit under the center median. The WeHo and Fairfax alignments have some ~90Āŗ turns, not sure if that's difficult with cut-and-cover under the street grid vs TBM.
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This could save billions and speed up the timeline, but I guarantee my neighbors would have a conniption if there were months-long closures of Fairfax and Santa Monica Blvd. I'm curious if some of the streets are wide enough to only have partial closures and lane reductions during construction.
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Sprawl produces super commuters. We already have the answers to traffic: build denser housing closer to jobs, invest in public transit, design streets that are safe for all modes of transport.
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Those graphs really highlight LAPDās department-wide quiet quitting. Reduced citations and arrests as roadway fatalities and serious injuries are increasing. I guess road design and automated enforcement are the only real tools we have left.
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The city will be legally required to add protected bike lanes next time Vermont needs repaving (or any general road improvements). It would be much cheaper to do it now while the street is already being overhauled. Too bad the city and metro arenāt thinking about how to best use taxpayer dollars.
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Have our Bel-Air oligarchs had their way?
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The mid-block riverside crossing is a lil sketch but I think worth it to get to the very chill ped bridge over the river
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I'd go fountain to bronson up to the hollywood bike lanes, then vermont to franklin and squiggle over to the pedestrian bridge over the LA river
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Every time a freeway is expanded I have to wonder what was defunded
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Even when thereās no money, thereās always money for freeways
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$34/yr for preferential permits and $15/yr for overnight permits. Thatās very low for private use of public spaceā well below the market value for that resource.
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Require LAPD officers to take personal liability insurance, tax private golf courses, overweight personal vehicle tax, automated red light / speed cameras, standardized multifamily housing plans, recategorize scientology lol
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This is all in the context of a Los Angeles that cannot afford to provide an acceptable base level of services to residents. LADOT often cites lack of funding for simple things like street repaving, curb ramps, bollards, & speed bumps.
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Worth noting that these comparisons are based on single-family zoned land. If we compared land values to nearby multi-unit zoned land these numbers would be even higher.
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Los Angeles is missing out on several hundred million dollars in tax revenue every year due to these tax breaks that benefit the very richest Angelenos.
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Bel-Air Country Club
87 Acres
Assessed Value: $12.4M
218 Strada Corta Rd
.73 Acres
For Sale: $31.5M (Land-only Assessed at $2.9M, 2020)
Given the assessed value of nearby land, Bel-Air CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $340M
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Los Angeles Country Club
308 Acres
Assessed Value: $22.2M
722 N Camden Dr
0.36 Acres
For Sale: $22.5M (Land-only Assessed at $9.2M, 2021)
Given the assessed value of nearby land, LA CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $8B.
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Nice maps. Canāt get over all that red in weho right next to Cedars where ~10,000 people commute to every day.
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The Sepulveda Pass heavy rail extensiĆ³n to LAX would connect the D and Expo lines nearby. K line extension to weho will also connect the two lines further east.
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Haskell Wexler doesnāt miss
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100% - I moved from NY to LA, and here itās illegal to build anything but single family homes in 3/4 of the city š«
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This photo explains so much of what it feels like to ride a bike in LA
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Finally! Hopefully this passes so we can build some decent infill housing.
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Being priced out of the city and forced to the exurbs is not fun.
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Not even wearing a traffic cone on your head? Just asking for itā¦
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The first quoted resident is mad about losing space for restaurants... but is also upset that the development would increase space for restaurants. Nimbys never cease to amaze me. A few blocks from the new metro station, this is an obvious location for a large mixed-use building.
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This one in Roma Norte is smaller but also very nice
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90% of bike infrastructure in Los Angeles looks like this š«£
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honestly stunned by the lack of double parked cars in this video
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Poor lighting leads to many crashes, but excessive vehicle size and weight makes significantly more of those crashes result in fatal outcomes for pedestrian victims. A grocery store parking lot full of 6000-pound F-150s might be good for your sales targets but itās also a public health crisis.
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100%. Cities think theyāll solve their housing crisis by just allowing duplexes and triplexes in single family zoned areasā¦ and then wonder why thereās not enough housing being built.
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Yes! Itās ridiculous that a 1.9 sq mile city centered on a busy commercial corridor has exclusionary zoning.
If you havenāt already, you can give input on the cityās Zoning Improvement Plan: engage.weho.org/ZIP
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Mixed-use Tower š
7 levels of parking right next to the La Cienega Metro station š¤
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I know! It would be a game changer. Itās wild how much new housing a policy like this would foster here.
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This must be the most significant upzoning in the country and hopefully it becomes a model that other cities adopt to build more homes. Cities like LA know that theyāre woefully underhoused but refuse to touch single-family zoning since itāll rile up some detached homeowners.