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Article Evaluation-Metropolitan Water District Southern California
Everything was relevant to the article topic. History was well described and was easy to understand, and all topics were well balanced depending on the importance of information. The article stayed neutral just stated facts. The viewpoints that were underrepresented is the section of the reservoirs. A further description of how the lakes are used, how much we depend on them, and the maintenance would allow the reader to have a more informative description on how the MWD stores it's water. When checking the citations most of them lead to the MWD own web page. There are also some statements that need citations. On the other hand most of the sources support the claims in the article. The information does come from a reliable sources such as the MWD own website, peer reviewed articles, and books.They may be biased and or neutral sources since most them are from the website. There is a book that was used from 1968 but the information was cited in the history section. What could be added is more information about conservation methods since it's a big topic in California. In the talk page the types of conversations that are happening are modifications of external links.The article is rated as Star-Class project and is part of WikiProjects California. The article differs from what we talked about in class in the way they are using sources. They are collecting data from mainly one website and paraphrasing to Wikipedia.

Early Residency
In the 1950's many manufacturing companies fled oversees or were overtaken by larger manufacturing companies, resulting in  vacant buildings and bringing property values down. Artists who were struggling to pay rent in the city started moving to the Arts District in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Before 1979 the Arts District buildings had been zoned for industrial use only. It wasn't until 1979 that the State of California passed a live/work legislation and in 1981 Los Angeles passed the bill Artist-In-Residence (AIR). This new bill AIR would allow artists to live legally in the areas that could no longer be used for industrial use as long as they attained a business license. To make the living standards more comfortable the building code was lifted.New regulations had been created and the AIR legislation required the lofts to have a room to sleep, fire alarm, and other requirements for them to live legally.

Future developments
In 2017 developer Suncal will proposed a 2 billion 1.95 million sq. ft mixed use project which includes two 58 story buildings designed by Hezorg and de Meuron. The project called 6 am will be located along 6th street between Mills and Alameda .The live/work space, will include 1,700 apartments and condos, shops, offices, hotels, charter school, and underground garage. Condos average price will be 1,000 per sq. ft. New developments have displaced artists since they can no longer afford the price hike in the Arts District. In 2016 the median price for property was $714,500. It's a huge increase from 2013 when open lofts were priced at 370 per sq ft.

In April 11, 2017 the district received a 15 million award from the Active Transportation Program which will enhance the Arts District with new bike lanes, enhancement of sidewalks,and street lighting. The program will bring two signalized intersections, pedestrian lighting, four pedestrian crosswalks, and one mile of bike lanes. Little Tokyo and Arts District Regional Connector Station will have pedestrian and bicycle access with the new Sixth Street Bridge.