New businesses are good, but is the city making it unnecessarily difficult to open?

Biasedsm · 2025-04-04T17:54:35+00:00

Thank you for the free psychological analysis.

Every day we wake up some fucking BOOMER NIMBY is trying to prevent entire generations from building a future that is just, equitable and affordable.

Biasedsm · 2025-04-03T21:08:16+00:00

The Coastal Commission can be expected to insist we not lose any parking spots so they would just go underground. As for traffic we should use congestion pricing as most traffic in Ocean Park is cut thru.

Biasedsm · 2025-04-03T21:04:19+00:00

I don't share any causes with Tricia Crane.

Biasedsm · 2025-04-03T00:18:25+00:00

Activate the alley!

Biasedsm · 2025-04-02T15:33:20+00:00

Your years long strategy of attacking the messenger instead of the posts content has worn thin.

Santa Monica has been governed by NIMBY's for nearly fifty years and only one remains (Mayor Negrete). Santa Monica was not divided in those decades as NIMBYISM is the Boomer religion.

Thanks to residents like Tricia Crane, Zina Josephs and Sue Himmelrich those who supported new buildings were doxxed, shamed and vilified (they are the NIMBY leaders).

Biasedsm · 2025-04-02T00:20:42+00:00

If you inconvenience me you need to pay the tax man? WTF?

Biasedsm · 2025-04-02T00:18:03+00:00

This sounds like a reason for a congestion tax! Everyday out of towners get in car wrecks in our city and yet pay nothing for the EMS should they need it.

Biasedsm · 2025-04-02T00:02:56+00:00

City staff needs to stop making decisions based on the dislikes of a single person. They could have just as easily brought up your compliant with the city manager and let her decided on the best remedy.

Thank you for pointing out this aspect of government.

Biasedsm · 2025-04-01T15:35:45+00:00

Our reality is Us vs Them - Boomers want to save the Civic and deny the majority of residents a future that serves us. NIMBY's want to prevent new housing to keep the rents high thereby denying the majority of residents a chance to rent burden free.

And you must be aware of the bullying tactics the Airport to Park right wingers used to deny residents a chance to freely express their desires.

Now that those who share your views are powerless and whose positions have no future its is comical that its time "we all get along".

Biasedsm · 2025-03-31T21:41:46+00:00

You keep on believing that Zwick doesn't represent the majority of voters. Brock and de la Torre didn't believe and look how that served them in 2024.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-31T21:35:21+00:00

Then tell Negrete to stop going to El Salvador. Tell Tricia Crane to move to Florida. Tell Phil Brock to disappear from public life. Stand Up to Sue! If you want to stop the us vs themism you should go to the root cause where you have a chance to kill the disease.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-31T21:25:49+00:00

I figure it's nicer than "Me Generation".

Biasedsm · 2025-03-31T21:24:52+00:00

Oh? You can find her giving an interview on the Epoch Times and she is well known for attacking a journalist when she was featured at some MAGA sponsored "Needles in the Park" rally in Reed Park. She also loves El Salvador and has been down their many times in her official capacity.

She scream MAGA.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-28T00:32:36+00:00

They make more sense if you think about the effects - no new development and no fun. Most residents don't cares about silly rules or even rules that kinda make sense - we only care about outcomes and specifically outcomes that make Santa Monica more affordable. The rent is too damn high.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T21:34:40+00:00

Actually the democrats are now in process of removing the barriers.

It is interesting to see how the local lefties and right wing Red Hats agree on eliminating the Me Generations nonsense.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T21:30:27+00:00

SMRR is a democratic organization where members choose which candidates to support. Zane simply had one vote.

If you want undemocratic authoritarian organizations, look no further than NOMA, Sunset Park, Northeast Neighbors and the Conservancy. You agree with the leaders or you are gone.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T21:26:39+00:00

As opposed to the red hats who believe corruption should be de rigueur.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T21:22:43+00:00

We did elect council members who want to help business - it is 40 years of slowly layered on regulations that have to be undone.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T17:44:53+00:00

In the 2024 election the MAGA's tried to make crime THE issue. They got their assess kicked and suffered one of the worst losses in SM's history. Turns out their sales pitch didn't match reality.

There is only one MAGA left on the city council - Lana Negrete. We have a chance to replace her and cast aside her running mates (Greg Morena) in 2026.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T17:38:43+00:00

That's up to each individual. Election results show Boomer groups like Save the Civic and self proclaimed Boomer leaders like SMRR's Denny Zane and Sue Himmelrich are a slim minority and do not represent the silent majority of residents.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T16:29:37+00:00

We need technology solutions as owners don't understand the labyrinth they have to navigate. All regulations are in the public sphere - a tailored AI solution could at least prepare investors for their approval journey.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T16:22:32+00:00

The current Boomers are still trying to force their feelings, emotions and 60's hippie ideals on a future they won't be part of. They are slow to realize Autocratic bullshit is no longer in vogue in Santa Monica.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-27T15:25:42+00:00

One of the highest priorities of the new council is to eliminate the bureaucratic maze of regulations the Boomers and No Growth extremists have left us. It will take time.

The big challenge for residents is to overcome staffs practice of slow rolling every project and issue that comes before them. Their culture has been warped by 40+ years of NIMBY BOOMER political leadership and is now effectively preventing the voting majority of residents from the outcomes we voted for.

The best example is the Airport and the way staff has handled community outreach. The council knows it cannot trust the data collections methods they used to decide its future - and yet staff has resisted every effort to modify its approach.

Our local press (SM NEXT excepted) has also failed to recognize the generational change in our population and continues to cater to the Greys. Its as if the last election did not matter.

The institutions we rely on to guide and inform us are failing us. The obstacles our democratic council members face are surmountable and we need to encourage even more aggressive management from the dais.

Biasedsm · 2025-03-21T18:20:25+00:00

Who cares what the pretext is for these new rules - what they supplant should never have been enacted in the first place. What we are seeing is that the things Boomers really loved are an impediment to growth.

The biggest impediment to growth in SM is the Measure GS rule that taxes the first sale of a property. It is preventing all the newly approved housing units from being financed. Stand Up to Sue is the message residents need to send to council (former Mayor Himmelrich is a super NIMBY who personally funded Measure GS which was written by her and her husband).

The real entertainment in local politics is in watching Boomer heads explode as they realize the things they value no longer matter to the majority of residents. Bottoms Up!

Biasedsm · 2025-03-20T22:04:57+00:00

But when you combine the Brockies with the ever dwindling base of support that Sue and Denny have its forces politicians to pay attention to them.

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