Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1937
"Still not satisfied that municipal growth and development had been adequately directed, the city administration retained Gordon Whitnall, an eminent city planning expert, as a consultant. As a result, a much improved zoning ordinance was submitted . . . by the time it was enacted in 1937, it had been much diluted, in response to pressure from builders and other interests. In particular, it was grossly inadequate in the matter of off-street parking requirements.
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