The Dusty Archive
Mike CallahanA retired Los Angeles-based engineer and freelance historian who writes about unconstrained development and issues related to preservation all while researching the city's forgotten past.
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MY DINNER WITH AI
The Los Angeles Department of City Planning is currently preparing a set of Objective Design Standards (ODS) for residential neighborhoods within Historic Preservation Opportunity Zones (HPOZ’s). While each HPOZ operates under a set of spec...
AI VERSUS SB-79
Renters and home buyers want to see more housing built so that prices go down. Developers want to build denser buildings so that they make more profit. Since the State does not want to pay for the construction of affordable housing, Senate...
ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION
In less than a month, we will be deciding who will lead this city forward. I hope we will elect a slew of candidates who believe in the preservation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. We need to elect candidates who will take action...
AB 130 VS HISTORIC DESIGNATION
Every year new laws are passed by the State that seek to promote the building of new housing. And, since the State does not like to pay for low-income housing, all it can offer a developer is increased density and/or the removal of obstacle...
FROM ADAPTIVE REUSE TO DEMOLITION
3/31/26 Update - City Planning is playing fast and loose with the public record. While the revised Letter of Determination still describes a project calling for demolition of the building, the attached plans have reverted from demolition (2...
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