Muir / SMASH Campus Water Intrusion Repair Costs Rises to Over $19 Million
Committee member Sam Levitt said, as quoted by The Santa Monica Daily Press, “You’ve got a $3 million contingency because, as we’ve all readily admitted — as we’ve heard everyone admit here — this building has been mismanaged from the getgo.” He added later in the meeting, as quoted by The Santa Monica Daily Press, “What we’ve heard in this outline is that the site hasn’t been managed and the repair work that’s been done hasn’t been impactful. And so, yeah, it’s sunk cost, but it’s a whole lot of sunk cost that’s been lost on a building. And what’s the confidence level in the next set of work actually remediating the issues at hand, and frankly, that the contingency is going to cover what we continue to find as we open up walls, and as we dive into these things?”
SMMUSD started this semester with two drivers for six routes that had been covered by six drivers previously By Dolores Quintana Labor shortages have plagued many industries during the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. Restaurants have struggled to remain open day to day because of staffing shortages due to Covid infections running through their staff and a number of former staff members choosing to retire from the industry.Withthe return of students to class in the Santa Monica and Malibu Unified School District, another Covid-related staffing issue has raised its head as reported by CBS News.The school bus driver shortage is a nationwide problem as seen by the joint temporary action taken by the U.S Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Transportation in January of this year but has been an issue throughout theU.S.pandemic.Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in the joint press release in January, “This Administration is listening to the needs of school communities and remains committed to making sure schools are open safely for in-person learning full time. We’ve heard from educators and parents that labor shortages, particularly of bus drivers, are a roadblock to keeping kids in schools. Today’s announcement will give states the flexibility they need to help increase the pool of drivers, who are a key part of the school community, and get kids to school safely each day where students learn best. And American Rescue Plan funds can be used to hire these critical staff, including offering increased compensation or other incentives to recruit and retain staff.”
Discovery of the water intrusion at Muir / SMASH has caused 500 students to be relocated to other schools
Former bus driver Steve Brown said, as quoted by CBS News, “Now I’m making more money here, I don’t have to go back to driving. That’s how the shortage came.
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During the Santa Monica Facilities District Advisory Committee (SMFDAC) meeting on August 22, committee members looked at the rising estimate for repairing the John Muir Elementary / SMASH Campus. Dubbed the Water Intrusion project, the repair estimate is now $19,661,00 to repair water damage to the campus buildings and remove black mold from the site. The discovery of the water intrusion at Muir / SMASH has caused 500 students to be relocated to other schools.
I also lost passion for school bus driving. I don’t know, the pandemic did something to me.” School districts are losing drivers to other companies who employ drivers like Uber, Lyft and Amazon. According to CBS News, the SMMUSD started this semester with two drivers for six routes that had been covered by six drivers previously. This is a problem because the school district has 9,000 students attending classes and the lack of drivers has caused the district to have the average number of students that a driver must pick up on a route increase from 30 or 40 students to 60 students per route.
The Grant Campus Project that would upgrade the campus library, courtyard and pre-K and Kindergarten areas of the campus is estimated to cost $13,860 million, the Rogers campus project to upgrade the classrooms, field and playground is estimated to cost $24,780 million, the Franklin Campus Project to upgrade the Makerspace and patio/outdoor CR areas is estimated at $10,439 million, JAMS campus improvements to the library have an estimated cost of $1,661 million. The options are to defer some of these projects to be able to fund the estimated cost of the repair to the Muir / SMASH campus.
The temporary waiver granted in this joint action expired in March of 2022, but this demonstrates how serious the problem is throughout the entire country.
Santa Monica Hit With School Bus Driver Shortage
The question is whether or not the Santa Monica-Malibu United School District should renovate the Muir/SMASH campus or replace the campus at another location. The estimate that was proposed at the meeting to replace the buildings is even more costly at $27,720 million according to DSA and OPSC guidelines. The other issue that the SMMUSD must consider is how to deal with the Muir/ SMASH expense as it relates to the other planned upgrades and repairs needed at other schools and the remaining $88 million in bond funds available to pay for them.
Photo: Sam Catanzaro The Muir / SMASH campus.
During the SMFDAC meeting, the options that were being considered were deferment of three of the current projects: Grant, Rogers and McKinley, which would bring the overall budget costs down from $107 million to $72,401 million. The SMFDAC board voted to continue with the repair of the Muir / SMASH Campus by a four-to-one vote with one abstention. The final decisions to either repair or replace the Muir /SMASH Campus and which school projects must be deferred to help pay for this expense will be made on September 1 at the SMMUSD Board of Education Meeting.
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Per the press release from the City of Santa Monica’s Communication Officer, City Manager David White has selected Paolo Velasco to lead the City’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as its Equity and Inclusion Manager. In this role, Velasco will strengthen a culture of equity and inclusion that builds on the significant progress the City has made over the last two years, through efforts by Equity and Inclusion Officers (EIOs) in every City department.CityManager David White said, “Paolo brings a wealth of knowledge and experience building programs and initiatives that raise up diverse voices and build a more inclusive institutional culture. We are excited to have him in Santa Monica to help expand our DEI efforts both inside the organization and within the Santa MonicaVelascocommunity.”comesto Santa Monica from UCLA where he has spent the past 19 years advancing DEI efforts on campus. He served as Director of the UCLA Bruin Resource Center since 2012, where he has led the development of programs and services focused on advancing the understanding and support of diverse and marginalized communities, promoting positive intergroup dialogue and allybuilding, and fostering a culture of respect andUnderinclusivity.his tenure, Velasco has established programs serving diverse student communities including foster youth, students who have experienced houselessness, system-impacted students, student veterans, and undocumented students.Perthe City’s press release, Velasco said, “I have dedicated my professional career to supporting individuals’ education and success, building and empowering communities, and advancing values of equity and inclusivity. My experiences have taught me that the critical changes that are needed in our society can best be achieved when diverse communities come together and engage in the difficult yet inspiring work of coalition building. I am excited to join the City of Santa Monica and to contribute to an organization and a community that is striving to cultivate a diverse, inclusive, and fair environment where everyone can thrive and feel a sense of Asbelonging.”Equityand Inclusion Manager for the City, Velasco will serve on the leadership team of the City Manager’s Office, working organization-wide to build on the strong groundwork laid by the City’s equity team that stepped into action in 2020 to join the movement against systemic racism and to better live the City’s values of equity and inclusion.Velasco has served as a manager, lecturer, research analyst, health educator, and training facilitator. He holds a master’s degree in higher education and organizational change and a bachelor’s in American literature and culture, both from UCLA.Hestarts on September 19 with an annual salary of $155,580.
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Los Angeles has taken a major step forward and launched Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program which is part of LA County’s Poverty Alleviation Initiative. 1,000 participants were selected and will receive a $ 1,000 stipend every month for the next three years. Residents from 18 to 91 from all over the county who speak Armenian, Cantonese, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish and English are all taking part in the pilot program.LosAngeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Holly J. Mitchell, said via a press release, “I look forward to the lessons learned on how public investments like this — that trust our constituents — are able to keep more residents housed or better positioned to invest in their future. It is my hope that LA County’s landmark guaranteed income program and commitment to poverty alleviation will help transform the delivery of government services in addressing the pressing needs of our communities.Over180,000 LA County residents applied and The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income randomly selected the 1,000 pilot recipients. The Center will be using this opportunity to research guaranteed income programs across the country and will study the Breathe program’s impact on LA County’s participants. Strength Based Community Change (SBCC), the program administrator, was responsible for onboarding the 1,000 recipients of the Breathe program. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said, via a press statement, “Given the huge number of LA County residents who applied, it’s abundantly clear that a guaranteed basic income is an idea whose time has come. I’m confident that we will see what other pilots have already shown: that a guaranteed basic income, by giving people a bit of financial breathing room, allows them to stabilize their lives and that of their family. Three years from now, I feel confident that this LA County program will be seen as a foundation stone that led to expanded programs providing economic opportunity and stability to every eligible American household.”The$1,000 a month will be distributed via debit card for three years as part of Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program. The program intends to address poverty and income instability. It is one of the largest and longest-running programs of its kind. LA County Chief Executive Officer Fesia Davenport said, via a press statement, “Los Angeles County serves as a critical safety net for our community members and with Breathe, we are directly investing in the success of 1,000 of our fellow residents. LA County’s groundbreaking guaranteed income program will lead to concrete research about how we can best serve our communities and address some of the most pressing challenges facing our residents—including generational poverty, financial and housing instability, and inequality.”SBCChas reached out to the 1,000 residents and heard their first-hand stories about the expected life-changing impacts the income has had on the participants and their families. Selected participants will be contacted throughout the program by SBCC who will assist them throughout the program to try and help them reach their personal and financial goals and improve the quality of life for their families and themselves.
SBCC Executive Director Colleen Mooney, said, via a press statement, “SBCC understood the impact that a program like this could have in our community and did not take this lightly.
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The Board of Supervisors and Los Angeles County have committed to addressing systemic issues of income inequality. They hope to do this by providing tools to help move County residents out of poverty. The ongoing study and data gathered from recipients will be pivotal in fighting poverty, now and over the longOtherterm.resources available through LA County include: • Stay Housed L.A, which offers information on tenants’ rights, free legal assistance, short-term rental assistance, and referrals to supportive services
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SBCC’s connections and partnerships with other grassroots organizations allowed us to bridge the gap between residents and the opportunity to apply for the Breathe program because of our strong ties to our communities. We are grateful that these partnerships made the enrollment and onboarding process more welcoming and accessible to many different communities and residents across Los Angeles County.”TheLos Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced the official launch of Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program on March 31, 2022. It is a part of the County’s Poverty Alleviation Initiative. The program is government funded but significant additional funding is being provided by philanthropic organizations, including the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, First 5 LA, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, and the Weingart Foundation. On the very first day, over 95,000 Los Angeles County residents signed up for The Breathe program. By April 13, the day enrollment closed, over 180,000 applications were submitted. A research team from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income winnowed out the duplicate and ineligible applications and randomly selected 1,000 LA County residents to Theparticipate.bigdifference with Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program and other aid programs because recipients have total control over how they spend their money. Residents have the financial flexibility to allocate their finances as needed without bureaucratic bottlenecks or restrictions.
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Lumiere: 2025 Avenue Of The Stars, Los Angeles - 79 - 149 USD “Nestled inside the Fairmont Century Plaza, Lumière is a relaxed brasserie-styled spot for French-inspired cooking. Friendly staff are on hand to offer guidance and share their favorite selections, but you’ll certainly want to indulge in a variety of classics like fruits de Mer and steak frites, if only for the delicious fries. Start things off right by ordering the velvety chicken liver mousse served with an olive jam, or sample the Bayonne, Fermin Iberico or five-year-aged Iberico hams from the charcuterie menu. Seared sea bass is plated with a delicious onion soubise for a pleasing main dish. Then for dessert, you’ll never go wrong with crème brûlée with its pure vanilla flavor and nutty caramelized crust.”
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Fine Ice Creams, an ice cream shop that is also a dairy, that has been in a business run by three generations of their family is opening a new shop at 1456 Third Street Promenade in the downtown area of Santa Monica as reported by Toddrickallen. com.
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The Michelin Guide has decided to announce 18 of the restaurants in Los Angeles that they have added to their list of excellence ahead of schedule. The press release on their website noted that “These establishments are highlighted as “New” on guide.michelin.com to help food lovers enjoy new discoveries before the annual announcement of Bib Gourmands and Stars.” It seems like Michelin just had to share about their new discoveries before they are ready to award the coveted stars and Bib Gourmand designations in this sneakGwendalpeek. Poullennec, international director of the MICHELIN Guides, said, “By revealing some of the new additions made by our inspectors throughout the year, we enhance our digital tools to further strengthen the ties that bind us to food lovers. We hope that these regular revelations and updates to the selection throughout the year will provide opportunities to highlight the profession and invite everyone to discover and support the restaurants around them.” Here are the five Westside restaurants that made the grade and the Michelin reviewer’s notes:Fia Steak: 2454 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica - 200 USD “Some places are just right for stopping in on a regular weeknight, and then there’s Fia Steak. This no-expense-spared spot is just right for getting dressed up and feeling festive, even if all you’re celebrating is the end of the week.Ithas the classic masculine steakhouse look down pat, complete with dry-aged steaks on full display. The menu is a classic paean to meat with opulent touches (spy the separate sections for caviar and Champagne). Seafoodfocused starters kick things off—keep an eye out for specials like the Dungeness crab salad topped with a seafood panna cotta. Of course, steak is the reason you’re here, but the decadence continues through dessert, with either a soufflé or a seasonal strawberry trifle with basil ice cream.”
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Their ice cream is described on their website as being, “Dense and pure-flavored, with smooth, consistent texture and a rich, velvety mouth feel. 70 years of craft, pushing for something greater, and, with a few, simple ingredients, ending up someplace magical.” Their philosophy is to keep things simple and the website further states that their ice creams have, “No stabilizers. No built-in a-chemistry lab emulsifiers. No preservatives. No phony flavorings, dyes, fillers or preservatives.”
Lulu: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles45 - 50 “ThinkUSDdining at a museum requires toting a silver tray? Meet Lulu. This charming restaurant may be nestled within a courtyard at the Hammer Museum, but there’s nothing hohum about it. Helmed by David Tanis with a little help from none other than Alice Waters, Lulu rewards guests who take a midday break from grokking the art. Fresh produce on display is more than just a design element; it’s a hint at the philosophy of this spot, where the three-course and à la carte menus shift daily. Solid cooking leans heavily into the seasons while letting the ingredients shine. Dishes are a moving target, but a recent meal of blood orange citrus salad, chicken saltimbocca and Meyer lemon gelato proves that hyperseasonal and local always steal the show.”
The space was formerly occupied by Somi Somi and Pinkberry and is very small. According to Toddrickallen, a “now hiring” sign has gone up in the window, so it shouldn’t be long before the shop opens.
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Ice Cream Shop From Santa Barbara To Join The Third Street Promenade
The Westside Is Well Represented Among 18 New Additions
Manzke: 9575 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles - 225 USD “This eponymous fine dining concept from Walter and Margarita Manzke is in the same building as their more casual Bicyclette Bistro. Here, you’ll settle in for a ten-course tasting menu boasting a contemporary style that blends French techniques with Californian influences and Asian notes. Ingenuity is everywhere. Wolfe Ranch quail is plated over steel-cut oats and served with a round of boudin blanc with a sauce of black truffle jus, aged balsamic and grated frozen torchon of foie gras. Dover sole sided by a morel mushroom filled with porcini stuffing and sauce vin jaune is pure decadence. Dessert is equally inventive, as in the avocado panna cotta with mango, calamansi passion curd and coconut ice cream. Though pricey, the vintage cocktail program is interesting.”Shunji:3003 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica - 250 USD “Freshly relocated, Shunji lives on as a notable Japanese counter manned by a chef whose experience runs deep. Inside, a sliding wood partition divides the space into two sections—both standard minimalist in décor, starring beige walls, a dark brown ceiling and that beloved blonde matte wood counter. One is run by Chef Miki Takahiro, while the second, smaller counter, is in the hands of Chef Shunji Nakao. Both offer an excellent omakase.Beginwith a handful of bites, like sesame tofu or smoked King mackerel with dots of green onion and ginger sauce. Then move on to the nigiri, of which sea perch and sea eel are both exemplary. Finish with soup tailed by dessert. It may sound simple, but the quality of product and flavor combinations are anything but standard.”
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A new ordinance offers eviction protections for qualifying tenants who need more time to pay increased rent. See website for details.
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• Utilizar más del 50% de los ingresos del hogar en el pago del alquiler. La financiación es limitada. Se dará prioridad a los hogares identificados con ingresos "extremadamente bajos" y "muy bajos" y no todos los solicitantes tendrán garantizada la asistencia. Este programa está abierto a todos los inquilinos de unidades de alquiler controlado, independientemente de su estado de ciudadanía. Una nueva ordenanza ofrece protecciones contra el desalojo a los inquilinos que cumplen con los requisitos y necesitan más tiempo para pagar el aumento del alquiler. Consulte el sitio web para más información.
• Pay more than 50% of household income towards rent. Funding is limited. Priority will be provided to households identified as having “extremely-low” and “very-low” income and not everyone who applies will be guaranteed assistance. This program is open to all Rent Control tenants regardless of citizenship status.
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• Currently reside in a rent-controlled unit; AND • Have received a notification of a 2022 Rent Control General Adjustment rent increase; AND
Para ser elegible para solicitar el programa de ayuda para pago del ajuste del alquiler: • Residir actualmente en una unidad de alquiler controlado; Y • Haber recibido una notificación de un aumento de alquiler del ajuste general de alquileres de 2022; Y
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A new eviction moratorium and a one-time Rent Control Adjustment Relief Program provide rent relief to rentburdened households in Santa Monica Rent Control units unable to afford the 6% General Adjustment increase that takes effect September 1, 2022. To qualify for Rent Control Adjustment Relief you must:
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Una nueva moratoria de desalojo y un programa de ayuda para el pago del ajuste de alquileres por única vez proporciona alivio para el pago del alquiler a los hogares agobiados de las unidades de alquiler controlado de Santa Mónica que no pueden pagar el aumento de ajuste general del 6% que entra en vigor el 1 de septiembre de 2022.
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Hannes Schwandt said, “We’ve had indications that the pandemic affected economically disadvantaged people more strongly, but we never really had numbers on actual life expectancy loss across the income spectrum. I am shocked by how big the differences were, and the degree of inequality that they reflected.”
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The study notes that “among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian, Black, and White populations, life expectancy declined 5.74 years among the Hispanic population, 3.04 years among the non-Hispanic Asian population, 3.84 years among the nonHispanic Black population, and 1.90 years among the non-Hispanic White population between 2019 and 2021.” In general, “life expectancy declined from 81.40 years in 2019 to 79.20 years in 2020 and 78.37 years in 2021. Life expectancy differences between the census tracts in the highest and lowest income percentiles increased from 11.52 years in 2019 to 14.67 years in 2020 and 15.51 years in 2021.” What the researchers also looked at was decreases in life expectancy relative to income. What they found was that in both 2020 and 2021, decreases in life expectancy in California were larger in the lowest income census tracts. Specifically, the report said, “Compared with 2019, life expectancy in 2020 decreased by 3.79 years (from 75.90 to 72.11 years) in the lowest income percentile, while it decreased by 0.64 years (from 87.42 to 86.78 years) in the highest income percentile.” Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University said, as quoted by Princeton.edu news, “Our results highlight the disproportionate burden the pandemic placed on low-income people and people of color.”
While many might believe that the pandemic is over, Covid 19 continues to cause deaths every day. A study published by Journal of the American Medical Association has found that not only has Covid caused a huge death toll in the United States, but the pandemic has actually lowered life expectancy in California by at least two years as reported by Princeton. eduAccordingnews. to the study, “life expectancy declined from 81.40 years in 2019 to 79.20 years in 2020 and 78.37 years in 2021.” Professor Hannes Schwandt of Northwestern University led the study which also found that a disproportionate number of people of color are affected more heavily by the loss of life expectancy that is attributable to the income gap.
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Covid 19 Has Reduced Life Expectancy In California By At Least Two Years
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Director George Miller appears on screen before the opening credits for Three Thousand Years of Longing. Speaking in a soft voice, as if he is your grandfather about to read you a bedtime story, he invites you into the telling of it, a story about stories. The two main protagonists are an introverted narratologist and professor of literature with a powerful imagination, “Alithea Binnie,” played with great sensitivity by Tilda Swinton, and a Djinn - a spirit or genie, who has been trapped in a bottle for eons, brought to “larger than life” by Idris Elba. As they tell one another the story of how they came to be at the same place at the same time, each character reveals their strengths and weaknesses, and eventually their souls are uncovered. As often happens in real life, they realize truths about themselves as they recount their past. If your predominant language is TikTok, you may find the first few minutes of the film strange and unfamiliar. People are telling each other stories from their lives, in words! But stay with it. The rhythm will grow on you, and the incredible images that this great director and his team have created as illustrations to the narrative are extraordinary. You will be drawn in and you will feel and think with Alithea and the Djinn. Telling stories is how the wandering minstrels and bards in ancient (and not so ancient) civilizations used to pass along tales of heroism and history throughout the land, from generation to generation. This film has been percolating in Miller’s imagination since he read a short story by A.S. Byatt published in the New York Times in 1994, about the evolution of narration based on the classic Arabian Nights tales. After years of keeping the idea in his head, Miller was ready to begin filming in late 2019 and then the pandemic happened. He and his crew persevered, changed their location from Turkey to Australia, and shooting began in December 2020.Miller’s last movie, the brilliant Mad Max: Fury Road is a 180 degree pivot from this one. Miller is a multi linguist in cinematic languages. The three Mad Max films he made between 1979 and 1985 established him as a groundbreaking director, which then enabled him to make extraordinary movies in different stylessuch as Babe (1995) and Happy Feet (2006) - switching story and character vernacular with ease. He says that film projects for him seem to take on a life of their own, from any unexpected inspiration. That can happen when you have a highly developed imagination.ThreeThousand Years of Longing begins as a conversation of sorts, and by the end it is very real and touching. It will have you contemplating human psychology - why we try to find ideas to believe in when there is so much we don’t know, how deeply loneliness can affect us, and how important it is to tell stories. Note that Idris Elba, in addition to being a great actor, is a celebrated DJ and musician. He’s been passionately pursuing that art since his teens. Perhaps that’s why he seems so perfect as the Djinn, because DJ’s are really Djinns. They “work the room” single-handedly, moving people’s emotions and moods through music. In this film, director Miller works the room and makes haunting chamber music, in contrast to the Wagnerian ethos of his Mad Max universe.
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One of the best side effects of true sustainability is that it reduces forever wars between regions and peoples. This conflict reduction decreases the chance of wars, the ultimate expres-sion of failing to live within your means. All wars end in exhaustion of one side or both and now presage the exhaustion of the entire globe. We have been at war with our environment for cen-turies and its now reaching terminal exhaustion. It does not matter if the issue is energy, social justice, materials, health, land, waste, trust, money, water, affordability, good will, clean air or food; we cannot consume or squander more of any of those necessities than we can produce sustainably for the life of humanity. Doing more with less Second, to live within our means, since resources are finite, we need to do more with less. For example we now have only two sizes of parking stalls (standard and compact). We need a third size for micro cars (Le Smart, the Fiat 500) as more small electric cars are pur-chased. Those small cars can fit about 2 per standard stall so parking structures/lots/garages can start to shrink or if they stay the same size can serve more residents/customers within the same size footprint. Such waste reducing and utility optimizing initiatives are all forms of doing more with less. But obviously we can go even further and use buses, scooters, bikes and shoes as a way of doing even more with less cars, but it does require dedicated bike lanes, wider sidewalks etc.. There is an infinite number of such
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In other words we need a giant reset of our perspective. After we peel away the comforting illusions and fairy tales that have paralyzed our response to a fatal threat, we can replace them with a philosophy that is more survival favorable. We can leave behind the doomed guideposts of infinite profits from in-finity growth. Instead we would propose two simple guideposts to lead our future decision mak-ing.
Last week we considered the illusions that keep us from facing the real dangers of climate change. The illusion that events far away (eg melting ice caps) do not impact us, the wishful thinking that technology will save us and the illusion that we can keep doing what we have always done, all conspire to allow us to ignore the gravity of our situation. To read the full article please see canwemayforbethehumanitysurprised-part-one-of-two-parts/.https://smmirror.com/2022/08/are-you-Butessentially,theconclusionisthatisrunningoutoftimetoadjusttonewcli-matecookedworld.Asalways,thequestionthen,iswhatcandone?SMart(SantaMonicaarchitectsaresponsibletomorrow)believeswenotbeabletosolveallofourproblemsfaceimme-diately,butonethingwedonowisinstantlychangeourminds.
First, we should always view any proposal with this lens: does it help us live within our means? For example a college or school district bond that piles new crushing debt totaling Bil-lions (with a B) of dollars on future generations, when the college and school population is ac-tually shrinking, is not an example of living within our means. A city that agrees to 8874 units of new construction without the permanent water for those 18,000 new residents is committing a form of suicide. A city that does not mandate net zero buildings (buildings that produce all their needed power locally) is digging itself into a hole that will require forever wars with its neighbors as to who will pay the outsourced cost of oil pollution (extraction, refining and combustion) and nuclear waste disposal. Even if the City outsources its windmills and photovoltaic collectors, it is still destroying someone else’s environment to build those seismically vulnerable, ponderous and wildlife killing facilities. A city that does not recycle the preponderance of its waste again is entering into unnecessary landfill wars with its neighbors. Santa Monica’s recycling program col-lapsed when China refused to accept our garbage. Conversely, the Japanese town of Kamika-tsu recycles 80% of its urban waste while the United States recycles a pitiful 9%. Even the urban waste stream is a resource: it can be recaptured help us to live within our means.
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Doing more with less can happen at any scale. Finally the best example of doing more with less is the humble tree. This ordinary object provides shade, fruit, habitat for wildlife, seasonal drama, wind protection, car-bon sequestration, thermal stability, water retention, building materials, slope stability and most importantly oxygen all in one living package. Therefore, to remove a tree, unless its diseased or dangerous is the ultimate wastefulness. To plant and maintain a tree is the ultimate investment in our sustainable future.
The best thing about starting to live within your means and doing more with less, is that none of this requires any leaders, group or organizing effort. You can do a lot of this now by yourself in so many areas of your life. Of course, much will require group consensus, but all of us know where the low hanging sustainability fruit are in our own lives. Living within your means and doing more with less are not radical concepts.
Most Santa Monicans have been doing this individually successfully for years. But individual actions do not guarantee group success. Even if every Santa Monican paid off their individual credit cards religiously every month (living within our means), that does not mean our City could not suddenly be crushed by a ballooning unfunded pension liability. Individual actions while vital, need to be augmented by group actions up to and including globally scaled actions.Naturally the question of why we should even try to live within our means or do more with less, needs to be answered. Why should we change and deny ourselves anything when all around us conspicuous consumption reigns? Why not just party to the max leaving the whole mess to the next generation? The answer is that is exactly what we are already doing now. You can see how well its working. Its working so well, that there may not even be a next generation willing to pick up our mess or enough survivors who can.
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The better answer is that now, the whole planet is shifting to survival mode. The sooner we all shift in that direction, the greater the possibility of avoiding unnecessary suffering includ-ing the possibility of mass extinction. In other words, in this transition to a fully sustainable world, our job is damage control from our previously spendthrift ways including rebalancing the social equity costs. We are already moving in the right direction in our City, County and State by being very close to almost no population growth. This is panicking the establishment: “Oh my god, California, for the first time, lost a representative in Congress!” They are trying every trick they can, to have you believe this is a real problem. Instead, we should embrace this as a bene-ficial opportunity. This fortunate drop in population demand allows us to bring the supply of oth-er critical variables such as water, power, food etc. into alignment with this stable population demand and therefore possibly create a sustainable City and eventually state. If that is not pos-sible, a population decrease will become unavoidable. When population is always growing in a city or state or country or world, sustainability is inevitably vanishing. So those that want to rapidly increase our City’s population or say things like cities must always grow, are just blind apologists for an unsustainable, doomed way of life. They are setting us up for an avoidable bigger collapse by forestalling the sustainability chang-es that could be accomplished today. This fetishizing of growth will cause a much more painful disintegration that the survivors will inherit. Looking for a soft landing. However, as we transition to true sustainability, we should have no illusions that we will still face many other tests (earthquakes, heat waves, mega storms, epidemics, forest fires, tsu-namis, riots etc.) short of mass extinction that could destabilize our already shaky City. These tests will create immense suffering for our residents. The more sustainable we make our City now, the more survivable these intermediate tests will be. In other words the same changes we do for sustainability will also increase our resiliency to these inevitable crisis. Just like the Fed is dishing out strong medicine, trying for a soft landing from our over-heated inflation, we need the strong medicine of a Big Reset to bring the City, State, country and world back into sustainable balance. Thus hopefully we can attain a soft landing for the cur-rent and future generations of the entire planet. As the cliche states clearly: “There is no Planet B”. Now is the time for the Big Reset by really living within our means and doing more with less. Our descendants will thank you.By Mario Fonda-Bonardi AIA S.M.a.r.t Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow Thane Roberts, Architect, Robert H. Taylor AIA, Ron Goldman FAIA, Architect, Dan Jansenson, Architect & Build-ing and Fire-Life Safety Commission, Samuel Tolkin Architect & Planning Commissioner, Mario FondaBonardi AIA & Planning Commissioner, Marc Verville M.B.A, CPA (Inactive), Michael Jolly, AIR-CRE. For previous articles see santamonicaarch.wordpress.com/writingwww.
opportunities because of the gross wastefulness of our society. From throw away packaging to throw away fashion, our commercial product stream is full of waste reduction opportunities. For a larger example, instead of tearing down the acres of empty retail and office buildings, it would be better to save the structures by adaptively reus-ing them for new purposes (see the repurposed Westside Pavilion).
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