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City Updates Evacuation Orders
9 hours ago · January 10, 2025 -- The City of Santa Monica on Friday afternoon lifted the Evacuation Order for the area between Montana Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard, allowing residents to return to their homes. "Residents may voluntarily return to this area but remain prepared with gathered essentials and be ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rising Number of Pedestrians, Cyclists Killed or Seriously Injured in ...
By Jorge Casuso. August 12, 2024 -- Despite major investments in traffic safety, fatal and severe injury crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians in Santa Monica have increased in each of the past three years, according to data provided by the City.
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.
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.
Miramar Redevelopment Project Moves Forward
The 502,157-square-foot redevelopment features 312 rooms that are twice the size of the exiting 300 rooms, adds 60 luxury condominiums on the top floor, banquet facilities, retail space and 14,000 square feet of public garden terraces.
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.