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Commissioner Shawn Landres began raising concerns over the proximity of the two dispensaries, suggesting that selecting a location on Santa Monica Boulevard east of 23rd Street would extend service to another neighborhood that was “far, far away — within the context of what ‘far’ means in Santa Monica.” Landres suggested that grouping the two dispensaries […]

“I would like to incentivize both the applicant and the neighbors to kind of work it out, but what I don’t want to do is hold new business hostage to prior business in a given industrial zone,” said Commissioner Shawn Landres. To add accountability, Landres suggested adding a condition to the permit approval requiring that

“I want to say very clearly, as we saw in the staff report, Council explicitly exempted applications that were in the pipeline as of a certain date when it moved to restrict the production of commercial uses on unavailable properties,” said Commissioner Shawn Landres. “So I too wish this was housing, it is a great

Commissioner Shawn Landres was momentarily worried that schools and daycares would be excluded from opening up on Wilshire. However, while Santa Monica’s zoning ordinance says that a dispensary can’t open 500 feet from a school, daycare or church, these businesses can open 500 feet from an existing dispensary.

Commission Chair Shawn Landres said that he’d like to see the city approve a law that would allow three similarly sized units one lot. “So I think we need to find a way over the next year or so to develop that ordinance that we started talking about earlier tonight. It’s clear that we’re not

Planning Commission Chair Shawn Landres and Councilmember Kevin McKeown are but a few of the local voices who have expressed a desire to continue virtual comments and meetings, and they may soon get their wish. Landres penned an article in April that detailed the need for continued opportunities for remote and in-person, real-time public comment

Planning Commission Chair Shawn Landres, who was one of the two no-votes, highlighted flaws in the project’s solution to handle automotive and pedestrian traffic in the area. He reiterated his point this week and said it also felt hypocritical to recommend that Council ban all commercial developments in the city one week and then, the

As to which city wields more cultural clout, Shawn Landres says it’s definitely Los Angeles: “Jewish culture creation has shifted west as writers’ rooms and artists have broadly consolidated here.” When it comes to the Jewish power centre, however, Landres says it’s neither New York nor Los Angeles. It’s Washington DC. 

Planning Commission Chair Shawn Landres …pushed for a plan to make the Promenade accessible to small entrepreneurs, women, people of color, African-Americans and others who need access to places like the Promenade in order to grow. He also drew the council’s attention to the fact that commissioners only approved the ordinance back in October with

Commissioner Shawn Landres asked staff to research if City policy puts limitations on the fees associated with condo ownership for low-income buyers. “I think we should find out because there’s not much point approving housing, that is literally unsalable because the very people who are given an opportunity to buy it cannot then afford to