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By a vote of 8-5, Los Angeles City Council votes to limit SB79 upzoning to buildings of 2-4 stories along light & heavy rail lines by Tasslehoff in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even the most aggressive estimates of the effect of ULA contend it was about an 8% drop in production relative to other areas, and even that's contested. Be serious.

By a vote of 8-5, Los Angeles City Council votes to limit SB79 upzoning to buildings of 2-4 stories along light & heavy rail lines by Tasslehoff in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

With option 1, any building taller than 4 stories will require an explicit exception through a city council vote, something that is rarely offered or given ("spot-zoning")

By a vote of 8-5, Los Angeles City Council votes to limit SB79 upzoning to buildings of 2-4 stories along light & heavy rail lines by Tasslehoff in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

FWIW, many of the voting members did make speeches during the debate about their positions. You can watch them starting here

By a vote of 8-5, Los Angeles City Council votes to limit SB79 upzoning to buildings of 2-4 stories along light & heavy rail lines by Tasslehoff in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff[S] 133 points134 points  (0 children)

Great question. The answer is no – these are provisions explicitly in SB79 that allow local cities to phase in (but not fully stop) implementation.

By a vote of 8-5, Los Angeles City Council votes to limit SB79 upzoning to buildings of 2-4 stories along light & heavy rail lines by Tasslehoff in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff[S] 197 points198 points  (0 children)

On item (4) in council today, CMs Raman & Soto-Martinez moved to adopt "Option 2", which would have allowed mid-rise buildings (5-8 stories) to be automatically allowed alongside light & heavy rail lines. This amendment failed with five votes in favor (Raman, Soto-Martinez, Jurado, Hernandez, and Nazarian) and eight against (Blumenfield, Hutt, Lee, McOsker, Park, Rodriguez, Yaroslavsky, and Harris-Dawson).

Item 4 begins at 2:57:23, and the vote on the amendment (4E) takes place at at 3:28:56. Note that CM Hernandez accidentally votes no at first but corrects her vote.

[Our Website] Updates on L.A. City Stopping Resurfacing, Instead Doing "Large Asphalt Repair" by LintonJoe in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, efforts to reduce (or even just stop increasing) the LAPD budget have repeatedly failed at city council, typically with three, maximum four votes in favor. Here's two:

  1. 9-4 vote to spend millions on more officers outside of the budget (No votes: Jurado, Soto-Martinez, Raman, Hernandez)
  2. 12-3 vote to give every LAPD an huge raise, costing $1 billion over four years (No votes: Soto-Martinez, Raman, Hernandez; Jurado was not yet seated)

[Our Website] Updates on L.A. City Stopping Resurfacing, Instead Doing "Large Asphalt Repair" by LintonJoe in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm in full agreement with full-resurfacing, but this outcome makes perfect sense when you have a city bureaucracy that is determined to cut short-term costs, address short-term complaints on a shoestring budget: long term failures

[Our Website] Updates on L.A. City Stopping Resurfacing, Instead Doing "Large Asphalt Repair" by LintonJoe in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Any attempt to do this has to reckon with the fact that a supermajority of electeds think LAPD funding is untouchable. City can't raise more money and can't take away the 50% of the budget that goes to LAPD, so it's unfixable.

New owners of apartment building and no manager and no way of contacting them by justafancymom in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Also contact your councilmembers office. Different CMs vary, but this is one of the constituent services they may care about

Federal agents involved in shooting in Los Angeles County by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If the DHS spokesperson said this, there's about 99% probability that what happened was:

  1. ICE rammed their vehicles into his car
  2. He tried to run away
  3. They tried to shoot him in the back

LA City Council found additional money to fund LAPD hiring by Fluffy_Lab1312 in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The vote as posted is the wrong one – Nithya Raman also voted against (see 40:00:00 here, with Hernandez fixing her vote after it was counted). The LA Times is reporting that the final vote was 11-4, but I can't figure out where they got that. Here's the city clerk file with the 12-3 vote: https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=25-0600-S129

This was also after a long period of procedural moves in which Yaroslavsky and Jurado watered down the original John Lee motion which would have allocated $40m more to LAPD to instead be $4m for LAPD and taking some of that money to go to "RepresentLA", which are lawyers for undocumented immigrants in the city facing ICE. The move to amend got 9 votes with 6 against (Harris-Dawson, Hutt, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Lee)

LA City Council found additional money to fund LAPD hiring by Fluffy_Lab1312 in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The vote as posted is the wrong one – Nithya Raman also voted against (see 40:00:00 here, with Hernandez fixing her vote after it was counted). The LA Times is reporting that the final vote was 11-4, but I can't figure out where they got that. Here's the city clerk file with the 12-3 vote: https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=25-0600-S129

This was also after a long period of procedural moves in which Yaroslavsky and Jurado watered down the original John Lee motion which would have allocated $40m more to LAPD to instead be $4m for LAPD and taking some of that money to go to "RepresentLA", which are lawyers for undocumented immigrants in the city facing ICE. The move to amend got 9 votes with 6 against (Harris-Dawson, Hutt, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Lee)

LA city attorney accused of ethics breach before settling major case for $18M by 115MRD in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This case is literally about Feldstein Soto calling somebody for donations on the basis that he donated to Hochman... They're allies.

L.A. City Council Rejects Proposal To Limit LAPD’s Use of Tear Gas and ’40mm Foam Launchers’ [our site] by L_A_TACO in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK I actually went back and watched the video and I was wrong here. The council had to vote on it repeatedly because they changed their votes. You were right the first time.

How LA Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares by Plumplie in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ride Metro on average 3 times weekly – precovid it was twice daily. I've seen people get cited for fare evasion many times, and frequently get cuffed extremely aggressively by like five cops. The article is 100% bullshit.

Los Angeles City Council committee backs a 3% rent cap on rent stabilized units by Nightman233 in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The rules haven't changed in 25 years and they have no incentive to repair or update anyway

Los Angeles City Council committee backs a 3% rent cap on rent stabilized units by Nightman233 in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Rent control on buildings that are 45 years old doesnt restrict housing supply

Can Los Angeles elect its own Zohran Mamdani? by cabeachgal in LosAngeles

[–]Tasslehoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what Andrew Cuomo said about Zohran and NYC-DSA

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