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Two years ago, a photographer began documenting the remaining black-owned bars and lounges on a storied stretch of St. Bernard Avenue. Inside these spaces, tradition is paramount. 
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A Texas developer and a group of California scientists are feuding over the amount of environmental damage a gated community would bring to one of the last remaining parcels of prime wildlife habitat in the southern Santa Susana Mountains.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While not all development projects in our coastal foothills are particulalry problematic, this one is horrible. It is proposed on a landslide area, would bury two blue line streas, actually increase fire risk, need a new nearly mile-long road just to get to the property, and pull development into an important wildlife corridor bringing large vertebrates from our more inland mountain ranges into our coastal moutnains. The preliminary findings that this development would amount to no significant impact to the area is a joke.
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Some visit San Francisco's North Beach because it tastes like Italy, and some visit because it howls like the Beat Generation. But the times, they are a-changing.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Another installment in the changing coastal zone of California:
"There is no beach. Once upon a time there was a beach. But in the late 19th century, as San Francisco’s leaders used landfill to create more real estate, Fisherman’s Wharf grew and North Beach found itself landlocked, with Chinatown to the south and Coit Tower rising from Telegraph Hill to the east."
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AVILA BEACH, Calif. — Pretty regularly, the clouds cartwheel in from the sea and sock everybody in around here, except tiny Avila Beach.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A classic story of gentrification. Where the oil spill once spread is now a gentrified, upscale resort town where virtually all the employees communte from tens of miles away to work as they can no longer afforrd to live there. A success? Maybe from country tax dollar perspective, but not necessarily from a sustainable, working coastal community perspecitve.
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