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Santa Monica Bike Update: Pedicab Ordinance Passes, Kidical Mass This Weekend, & The SMC Bike Club Goes Camping

By Gary Kavanagh | Apr 12, 2013 | No Comments

In Santa Monica becoming a little more Portland (without the rain):the Santa Monica city council just approved an ordinance on Tuesday to regulate pedicab operators interested in setting up shop in town, this Saturday is the first Santa Monica Kidical Mass (a concept I first saw roll by in Portland OR and originated in Eugene […]

Parking Ordinance Timeline Not Deferred, & Thoughts On Future Of Parking

By Gary Kavanagh | Apr 5, 2013 | No Comments

This Wednesday, the Santa Monica Planning Commission deliberated on whether or not advise the City Council to push back the updates to the parking ordinance of the zoning code a full year, and after other land use zoning changes are completed. During testimony, I personally testified against delay and was glad that amongst the back […]

They Paved Paradise, Parking In Santa Monica

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 29, 2013 | 2 Comments

Parking has been dominating the public policy debate in Santa Monica the past few weeks, ever since the local lobbying group Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC) made transportation consultant Jeffery Tumlin into a target. Unfortunately they subsequently succeeded in having him removed from Santa Monica projects after years of great work with […]

Santa Monica: Public Process Begins For Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 22, 2013 | 2 Comments

This past Saturday marked the beginning of the public process for a proposed Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway in Santa Monica (a video of the concept for the unfamiliar). This is one of the more high profile projects called for in the early scope of Santa Monica’s Bike Action Plan, although the greenway concept goes far […]

Santa Monica: Defining Sustainability

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 14, 2013 | 4 Comments

One of the ways I’m often reminded I’m really a Santa Monican first, Angeleno second, is when I see Styrofoam as a food container . It makes feel a little ill inside. We pride ourselves on environmental stewardship as a core value in Santa Monica, and take protecting the coast and the ocean seriously. Always […]

Transportation Impact Fee & Climate Policy Actions Adopted By Santa Monica Council

By Gary Kavanagh | Feb 28, 2013 | 6 Comments

At Tuesday night’s council session at Santa Monica city hall, it was a clean sweep toward making progress on multi-modal transportation goals and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (for areas not dependent on outside decision making like the federally regulated SMO airport). The big item that most of the public was in attendance for was the […]

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