A likely merger of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning and the Department of Building and Safety is "a shift that planning experts and architects would welcome," said Will Wright, director of Government Affairs for the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles.
"Long-range planning and community planning and creating a vision for the future should be the priority," Will continued.
Read the full article in Los Angeles Downtown News, or this excerpt in Planetizen.
To clarify, I am not speaking for the AIA|LA - I am speaking as the AIA|LA's Government Affairs Director who has been watching this proposal very closely.
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