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Curfew in Place, Air Qualify Worsens - surfsantamonica.com
1 day ago · November 9, 2025 -- A curfew is now in place for the mandatory evacuation zone North of Montana Avenue, as Santa Monica residents are being urged to stay indoors with smoke from the Pacific Palisades fire approaching unhealthy levels. The sunset-to-sunrise curfew affects the approximately 2,472 ...
Poll Gauges Concerns from Laws to Health - surfsantamonica.com
1 day ago · January 9, 2025 -- Are there too many laws in California? Should the Council have made it easier for large projects to be approved? Does the bird flu pose a serious health threat? Those questions were asked in a monthly Santa Monica Pulse poll of "civically engaged" Santa Monicans, who ...
City Preps for Homeless Diversion - surfsantamonica.com
January 3, 2025 -- The City this spring will launch an $8 million three-year program that provides homeless persons arrested for misdemeanor crimes an alternative to jail. SaMo Bridge -- which is funded with a Prop 47 grant from the State -- will be run out of a “respite hub” consisting of two ...
Lower Speed Limits Go Into Effect - surfsantamonica.com
January 2, 2025 -- Traffic will slow down this year on some 30 miles of streets across Santa Monica, which has seen fatal and serious injury crashes rising since 2020. The speed limit adjustments on 47 stretches of boulevards, major cross streets and near schools are being made "one corridor at a ...
New Planning Head Assumes Post - surfsantamonica.com
4 days ago · January 6, 2025 -- Santa Monica began the year with a new interim head of planning as the City Council begins quickly shifting its policies to make it easier to build new housing. Last month, City Manager David White appointed Planning Manager Jing Yeo as Santa Monica's acting director of Community ...
New Council Moves to Streamline Housing Process
December 16, 2024 -- The new City Council on Tuesday is quickly moving to allow housing projects proposed in non-residential zones to once again be approved administratively on any size lot. The discussion item placed by three members of the Council's new 6-1 super-majority would reverse a move by ...
Santa Monica Pier Third Most Polluted West Coast Beach
By Jorge Casuso. July 18, 2024 -- Despite multi-million-dollar upgrades, the Santa Monica Pier remains one of the most polluted beaches on the west coast, according to the Heal the Bay's 2023-24 Beach Report Card.
City Prepares to Rebuild Pier Bridge - surfsantamonica.com
By Jorge Casuso. November 1, 2024 -- After more than a decade of planning and delays, the City is taking the initial steps to begin replacing the Santa Monica Pier bridge that has been standing since the start of World War II.
How Santa Monicans Can Prepare for a Tsunami
By Jorge Casuso. March 27, 2024 -- It can arrive within minutes or take hours to reach the coast, but if a tsunami strikes Santa Monica, ocean waves could reach as high as a five-story building.