FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 96
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE SEX ISSUE
Santa Monica Place not for nightlife
Planning Commission votes down parking plan BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Planning commissioners denied a request by city staff to move forward with the demolition and replacement of the public parking structure on Second Street at its meeting Wednesday. The rejection came in spite of staff recommendation to avoid an overlap between the reconstruction of the building — called Parking Structure 6 — and the demolition of Parking Structure 3, which will be part of a potential AMC movie theater project. In its current form, PS 6 fits 342 parking spaces on the 1400 block of Second Street. Its central location near the Third Street Promenade, the Santa Monica Pier and Santa Monica Place made it a prime candidate for renewal, city staff said. The new design, created by International Parking Design, Inc., would provide 750 parking spaces, 13 motorcycle spaces and 90 bicycle spaces across three-and-a-half subterranean levels and a maximum height of 84 feet. It would also include storage space for city events and continue to host a Santa Monica Police Substation. Staff moved forward with the design
Downtown residents try to block late night liquor sales BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Neighbors of Santa Monica Place on Wednesday succeeded in shutting down, at least temporarily, an attempt by Macerich Co. to extend the number of hours people could purchase alcohol on the mall’s patios. Three residents in the Luxe Apartments on Fourth Street and more than 50 residents of the Promenade Gateway apartment complex on the Third Street Promenade signed a
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SIPPY SIPPY: A couple enjoys some wine and beer at the Sonoma Wine Garden at Santa
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Monica Place. The owners of the mall want to extend the hours liquor can be sold.
US study says sex down among young adults, teens BY MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA Apparently, fewer teens and young adults are having sex, according to a federal study which offers numbers but doesn’t examine the reasons. Why is it decreasing? “That’s the $100,000 question,” said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent
Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Some experts say an emphasis on abstinence may have played a role. Some say concern about sexually spread diseases may have been a factor — perhaps instilled by parents who watched the AIDS crisis unfold. Still others suggest this is a generation of kids who are less inclined to experiment with drugs and sex than their predecessors. The study, released Thursday, is based on
interviews of about 5,300 young people, ages 15 to 24 It shows the proportion in that age group who said they had had some kind of sexual contact dropped in the past decade from 78 percent to about 72 percent. There are other surveys of sexual behavior, but this is considered the largest and most reliable. “It’s the gold standard,” Albert said. Health scientist Anjani Chandra of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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described the decline in sex as small but significant. She declined to speculate on the reasons. It’s difficult to look for a trend earlier than 2002 because previous surveys did not gather as much detail about various types of sex, she added. However, data over the years on vaginal intercourse among never-married adolesSEE SEX PAGE 3
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