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September 25, 2008
SaMo Forgets to Collect $45 Million, Says Prop T Peeps
It's another day in the fight between Santa Monica City Hall and proponents of Proposition T, the city measure that would "establish an annual limit on commercial development" in an effort to slow down traffic growth. In this round, city staff asked city council about beginning to impose a traffic impact fee on developers, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press (.pdf). But Prop T proponents said the city already took a similar action in the early 1990s and could have collected an estimated $45 million by now. But the city says they were only beginning a study on the issue and that it looks like the 1994 Northridge Earthquake distracted them.
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Prop T is a non solution. People have and always will come to Santa Monica whether we get new development or not. Real traffic solutions would be improving transit within and to the city. The Subway to the Sea is desperately needed. Better infrastructure for pedestrians, and lanes for buses that last more then 2 blocks could help.
Santa Monica has a better than average network of cycling infrastructure than other cities in LA. However it is currently mostly disconnected from any bike lanes or decent bike routes from neighboring cities (except for the beach path which is a great place to cruise but a terrible place to commute), and most traffic in Santa Monica is from people living outside coming in.
A real solution would actually be ratifying some of the ideas in the LUCE document the City Council has been twitting their thumbs over.