CALSTART’s 20th Anniversary Testimonials - How Time Flies!
Senator Barbara Boxer: I am so honored to receive CALSTART’s Blue Sky Legacy Award. Thank you so much. I want congratulate CALSTART on twenty years of dedicated service in promoting clean energy...
View ArticleTOD for Dummies: Allan Kotin Simplifies Transit-Adjacent Real Estate Development
Good afternoon. I’m not a legislator. I’m a real estate economist, and I’ve been professionally engaged with TOD’s for roughly 30 years, specialized in PPJV’S—public/private joint ventures between...
View ArticleThe Planning Report Endorses Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles
Three policy issues have been the focal point of The Planning Report since day one: planning and smart growth; multi-modal transportation; energy and water. Your commitment to each and your investment...
View ArticleLA City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell Tackles LA River, Supports Hollywood's...
As the newly elected councilperson from the 13th District of Los Angeles, replacing now Mayor Eric Garcetti, please share with our readers what your policy priorities will be. Mitch O’Farrell: I care...
View ArticleSanta Monica's Terry O'Day Discusses Electric Vehicles and Transit-Oriented...
Terry, the New York Times recently ran a provocative piece called “Santa Monica Bets on Electric Cars, but Consumers are Slow to Switch.” You’ve been a civic and political leader in Santa Monica, you...
View ArticleCongressman Earl Blumenauer Proposes 15-cent Increase to the Federal Gas Tax
Congressman, you have just introduced a bill in the House—Update, Promote, and Develop America’s Transportation Essentials Act of 2013—which includes a federal gas tax increase. Can you talk a bit...
View ArticleCARB’s Mary Nichols on the Need to Create a Sustainable Freight System
Mary Nichols: One of the things that I’ve noticed recently is how many incredibly smart and knowledgeable people have gravitated to the issue of electricity and providing electricity. Those of us who...
View ArticleZack Zalon: Metropolitan Los Angeles Is a Happening World Center of Innovation
I’ve spent about 18 years running innovation-oriented businesses around Los Angeles, and in that period of time, one of the things that I have noticed is that Los Angeles doesn’t get a lot of respect...
View ArticleOut-of-the-Box City Transportation Manager Gabe Klein Shares DC and Chicago...
Gabe Klein: The mayor wanted “out of the box.” I came in, and D.C. City Administrator Dan Tangherlini said, “We have this streetcar that we’re trying to get off the ground. We’ve got this little...
View ArticleLA Councilmember Mike Bonin Advocates for New Measure R-2 Transportation...
Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti and Metro’s Art Leahy will advocate a new half-cent sales tax at MOVE LA’s transportation conference to fund rail, highway, and bike lane projects through Measure R-2, a...
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