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Top Secret: Beverly Hills City Council Holds a Priority-Setting Session

December 9, 2015February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot council priorities, priorities setting exercise, public participation

You would think it is top-secret: the city calendars a priority-setting exercise to craft policy-making for the coming fiscal year

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Recapping the Recappers: How Local Media Covered SM Blvd

January 9, 2015January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Courier, Beverly Hills Weekly, John Mirisch, Lili Bosse, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction, Westside Today, Willie Brien

“Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills Could Soon Be Bicycle Safe.” That’s a real headline, not an April Fool’s day

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Blue-Ribbon Winner: Public Input!

January 30, 2014February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot Barry Pressman, blue-ribbon SM Blvd committee, Howard Fisher, Iteris, Psomas, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

With the Santa Monica Boulevard Blue-Ribbon Committee having wrapped in late January, our recommendations will go to Council for consideration

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SM Blvd Blue-Ribbon #4 [recap]

January 23, 2014March 3, 2014 Mark Elliot Andy Licht, Barry Bernstein, Barry Pressman, blue-ribbon SM Blvd committee, Charles Aronberg, Craign Corman, Ed Brown, Jeffrey Wolfe, Kathy Reims, Lillian Raffel, Psomas, public participation, Robert Anderson, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

By a vote of 9-2 last night, the Beverly Hills Santa Monica Boulevard Blue-Ribbon Committee will recommend to City Council

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Next SM Blvd Meeting: Wednesday 1/22

January 19, 2014January 20, 2014 Mark Elliot blue-ribbon SM Blvd committee, Psomas, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

The Santa Monica Boulevard Blue-Ribbon Committee meets for a fourth and final time this week to discuss design options and

Melissa Antol speaking at Blue-Ribbon #3

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SM Boulevard Blue-Ribbon #3 [recap]

January 12, 2014January 27, 2014 Mark Elliot Barry Pressman, blue-ribbon SM Blvd committee, Iteris, Psomas, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

With the last of three Santa Monica Boulevard Blue-Ribbon Committee meetings now behind us, we can recap our work to

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SM Boulevard Blue-Ribbon #2 [recap]

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 Mark Elliot Barry Pressman, blue-ribbon SM Blvd committee, Iteris, Psomas, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

The public outreach process for the reconstruction of Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills continued with the second of three

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Council’s Agenda for Tuesday: SM Blvd Reconstruction

September 6, 2013September 7, 2013 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills Transportation Division, public participation, Public Works Commission, Recreation and Parks Commission, Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction, Traffic and Parking Commission

Ride the Westside on Santa Monica Boulevard and you’ll know that something’s missing when you pass through Beverly Hills. Somehow the

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Small Town Advocacy in BH: Opportunities & Constraints

September 6, 2013February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot Alan Grushcow, Andy Licht, editorial, Jeff Kolin, Jeff Levine, Julie Steinberg, Lester Friedman, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

If you want to advocate for a policy change in Beverly Hills, take some comfort that we’re a small town

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Uncertain Progress on the Expo Line Bikeway

September 3, 2012January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot Damien Newton, Expo bikeway, Expo Construction Authority, Expo Line, Gary Kavanaugh, Metro, public participation, Sherry Arnstein

On this past Saturday’s Bike Talk podcast we took the opportunity to highlight the ongoing challenge of creating a safe

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Beverly Hills Reaches Out When It Suits City Hall

May 25, 2012January 23, 2019 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Public Works, Beverly Hills Transportation Division, Brown Act, public participation, Purple Line, transparency

We received a press release yesterday from City of Beverly Hills decrying Metro for finalizing the Purple Line Constitution station.

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Beverly Hills: Bad-Faith Bike Planning?

February 21, 2012April 8, 2013 Mark Elliot Beverly Hills bike plan, Pilot program, public participation, Santa Monica Boulevard Reconstruction

When our City Council in January of 2010 simply re-adopted our 1977 6-page bike plan without any kind of review,

Ad-Hoc Bike Plan Update Committee at work

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A Sobering Recap of Beverly Hills Bike Planning

January 15, 2012February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot #FAIL, Ad Hoc Committee, Beverly Hills Transportation Division, public participation, Sunset Boulevard

Looking back over the past year, it’s difficult not to be profoundly disappointed by the utter lack of progress in

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AB 345 Gives Us A Voice

June 16, 2011February 9, 2018 Mark Elliot AB 345, legislation, public participation

From the California Bicycle Coalition (CBC) comes a heads-up about an AB 345 that for the first time would open

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Why COGs Matter

June 13, 2011April 11, 2019 Mark Elliot governance, public participation, Westside Cities COG

Since last Fall, Better Bike been pressing the Westside Cites Council of Governments (COG) to take a more active role

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