scholarly journals SANTA MONICA BAY SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT PLANS

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
A. G. Johnson

The officially adopted Master Plan of Shoreline Development for Santa Monica Bay covers 13 miles of the shoreline between Topanga Canyon and El Segundo, with 9 miles in the City of Los Angeles, 3 miles in the City of Santa Monica, and one mile in unincorporated territory. It is planned to care for the beach recreation needs of 6,000,000 people, which is the estimated population for Los Angeles County in 1970. The beach development includes an ocean fill of 56,000,000 cubic yards, on which all the facilities will be constructed. These include scenic beach drives with divided roadways, promenades, areas for games of various kinds, bath houses, rest rooms, landscaping, restaurants, and last but not least, auto parking areas with a total capacity of 40,000 cars at one time. The amusement park and marina will also have parking fields with a capacity of 6,000 and 11,000 cars, respectively.

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-666
Author(s):  
Sara Mayeux

Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with the Los Angeles County Public Defender—13 years as a deputy, followed by 19 years as head of the office—and now maintained a small private law practice downtown. Many mornings, Vercoe would have had business at the Hall of Justice, the ten-story box of “gray California granite” that housed the jails and courtrooms. On this particular morning, he was headed instead to Clifton's Cafeteria at Seventh Street and Broadway. Perhaps, as he drove the dozen miles west into the city, he admired the “geraniums, cosmos, sweet peas, asters and marigolds” that lined the “gardens, parkways, and driveways,” or perhaps he was used to the foliage by now. Vercoe had lived in California for more than 30 years, making him, by West Coast standards, a real “old-timer.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Jersonildo Calderaro Pereira ◽  
Maria do Socorro Almeida Flores

ResumoEsta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar os planos diretores elaborados e implementados no município de Belém, Estado do Pará, com ênfase nos períodos pós-constituinte (1988), passando pelo Estatuto da Cidade (2001) e Estatuto da Metrópole (2015), para verificar se estes instrumentos públicos foram realmente utilizados pela administração pública como instrumento de gestão e planejamento ou se apenas corresponderam ao atendimento de formalidade legal, com o fim de abster-se de crime de responsabilidade na gestão pública. A pesquisa foi realizada utilizando como método, a pesquisa bibliográfica e análise documental, abrangendo a elaboração dos dois Planos Diretores do Município de Belém, aprovado sem 1993 e em 2008, destacando um recorte de três mandatos eletivos distintos. Posteriormente, realiza-se uma análise comparativa do Plano Diretor e Plano Plurianual (PPA), com a Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentárias (LDO) e a Lei do Orçamento Anual (LOA), sob a ótica da execução orçamentária no município de Belém e sua aplicabilidade nas Ações Programáticas de cada governo, abordando os aspectos do saneamento ambiental, mobilidade e acessibilidade do transporte público e habitação social urbana. Conclui-se que os Planos Diretores e os demais instrumentos públicos PPA, LDO e LOA, não guardam sintonia entre si e comprometem a sustentabilidade da gestão pública, apresentando-se desconectados frente aos Programas e Planos municipais elaborados e suas reais execuções, frente às suas disponibilidades orçamentárias. AbstractThis research aims to analyze the master plans developed and implemented in the municipality of Belém, State of Pará, with an emphasis on the post-constituent periods (1988), including the City Statute (2001) and the Metropolis Statute (2015), to verify whether these public instruments were used by the public administration as an instrument of management and planning or if they are mere legal formalities, in order to abstain from a crime of responsibility in public management. The research was carried out using bibliographic research and documentary analysis as a method, covering the elaboration of the two Urban Development Plans carried out by the Municipality of Belém in 1993 and in 2008, highlighting a section of three distinct elective mandates. Subsequently, a comparative analysis of the Master Plan and Pluriannual Plan (PPA) is performed, with the Budget Guidelines Law (LDO) and the Annual Budget Law (LOA), analyzing them from the perspective of budget execution in the municipality of Belém and its applicability in the Programmatic Actions of each government, addressing aspects of environmental sanitation, mobility and accessibility of public transport and urban social housing. It is concluded that the Master Plans and the other public instruments PPA, LDO and LOA, are not in tune with each other and compromise the sustainability of public management, presenting themselves disconnected from the Municipal Programs and Plans elaborated and their real executions, facing their budgetary availability.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Lila Higgins ◽  
Emily Hartop

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is reconnecting to the city around it and in the process discovering a vital role for itself in the life of the city and its future. This article’s authors both work for the museum. Lila Higgins describes a Los Angeles teeming with nature, often hidden in plain sight. Emily Hartop describes the museum’s ongoing citizen science project BioSCAN, which is collecting insect specimens around the city on an unprecedented scale to understand not just the full array of insect species living in the city but using geographic variations and changes over time to paint a more complete picture of the city’s ecologies.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rufus D. Catchings ◽  
Janis Hernandez ◽  
Mark R. Goldman ◽  
Joanne H. Chan ◽  
Robert R. Sickler ◽  
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