Santa Monica Daily Press, July 08, 2013

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A peek behind the planning curtain BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

CITY HALL Cities like Santa Monica do not just form, they are planned and in the city by the sea, much of that planning is happening right now. City officials have begun to add details to the Land Use and Circulation Element,

or LUCE, a document that lays out the policies by which Santa Monica will develop over the next 20 years. The Bergamot Area, Bicycle Action, Pedestrian Action, Memorial Park and Downtown Specific plans represent a handful of those efforts, ones that will dictate the heights, densities and even types of buildings allowed in those areas of the city.

At the same time, a flood of large projects rolled in at the end of 2012, leading some community members to worry that the housing, office space and other construction planned for two decades of development would come online in just a few years and before the rules for the areas had even been determined. Officials have recently focused on the

Downtown Specific Plan, which creates rules for the area that falls between Ocean Avenue, Interstate 10 and Wilshire and Lincoln boulevards. The thinking for that piece of the city includes special plans for eight parcels in the Downtown, which officials call “opportunity sites” for their potential to SEE MARTIN PAGE 8

To cut STDs, officials may allow condoms in state’s prisons DON THOMPSON Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. California prisoners have unprotected sexual contact, forced or consensual, even if both are illegal, and this reality often leads to the spread of HIV and other diseases in prisons and in communities where felons are paroled. Setting up a difficult conversation, one state lawmaker says it’s time to give inmates a way to practice safe sex behind bars to reduce an infection rate that experts say is much higher than that of the general population. The proposal from Oakland Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta comes despite a law prohibiting any sex between inmates, which creates a conflict that concerns both supporters and opponents of the legislation. “It’s a felony for prisoners to have sex while they’re in prison, so I don’t think it’s good government for the state to encourage inmates to break the law,” said Republican Assemblyman Dan Logue of Marysville. Bonta’s proposal would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make condoms available in five prisons by 2015 and expand the program to each of the state’s 33 adult prisons SEE CONDOMS PAGE 7

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Malibu officials take on lighting standards — again BY MELISSA CASKEY Special to the Daily Press

MALIBU After Malibu locals and city planning commissioners expressed overwhelming support to create thorough citywide lighting standards, the City Council

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will review subcommittee recommendations and likely greenlight plans to solicit help from a private consultant to help draft the ordinance with $25,000 in funding. The Planning Commission, which has dealt with several community fights concerning lighting issues at Malibu High

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School in recent months, made a case for a lighting ordinance to the City Council in April. That prompted a unanimous vote by the council on April 9 directing a zoning subcommittee (ZORACES) to explore an ordinance. SEE LIGHTS PAGE 9

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