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Keith???
Right, pretty rich for Sunland-Tujunga NC to be fretting about SB 79
I mean, it's not. This is an alternative compliance plan as authorized by SB 79. The point of this is to follow state law
My generation grew up with Blippi.
Your generation grew up with Bluey.
We are not the same.
Additional - I was pretty strongly in support of the idea that HLA-mandated full-time bus lanes should be regarded as ~LPAs but it seems that's not the right legal interpretation. If they were included in SB 79, the texture of this conversation would change in a couple of neighborhoods.
I'll finish with my personal opinion, of course - Option 3 is the best way to go, but Option 1's upzoning of the worst-offender R1 neighborhoods would still push in useful missing-middle-type density and low apartments to boost some of the weakest points of our transit system
The people shocked by this report probably (1) don't understand how much recent city & state programs have added capacity near to transit, (2) don't know how much near transit is already R2+, (3) didn't read SB 79, or (4) have westside tunnel vision.
(On a quick look through CTCAC maps, a far higher percentage of our transit is in Low Resource Areas when compared to SJ, SF, SD.)
Would love to see better than Option 1, but SB 79 as written does allow and to an extent encourage these alternative plans 🤷
To an extent, this report seems to be exposing some people's misunderstandings with LA & its transit. SB 79 essentially says "you can delay SB 79 effectuation everywhere except in rich SFH neighborhoods", that's what this does - we just only have a few of those next to transit!
still thinking that's probably first couple weeks of april.
on the other hand:
Notes:
- This could happen with a pro- or anti-SB 79 Council.
- I don't think SB 79 Alternative Plans are an inherently bad thing in the way some Loud Reacters have panicked about and can be done thoughtfully.
I'm not super worried about whether City Council likes SB 79 (they have little say), instead I worry about if LA's out-of-control fiefdom politics will influence the inevitable Alternative Plan and shove the density into corners of the city dictated by who's elected there instead of best practices.
[Deleted and shifted some posts around because I made some threading errors, btw]
[...] and I know I'm not alone. That was a big piece of Zohran's platform too!
As it stands, "build social housing on public land" is a good thing but not nearly enough on its own. (Also, what public land? We're extremely poor on urban public land as-is.)
Also, housing *is* a big one for me - have heard concerns about some of her past positions but I'm extremely willing to forgive on that because housing politics have realigned themselves strongly in the past few years. One of the few fields where my personal politics have shifted [...]
Her public-facing messaging is very muddled. Very tired of hearing "LA's Mamdani" - I *want* LA's Mamdani but I'd like to see it in policies not just sheer insistence. I know I'm not the only person who feels a bit confused about her main policies.
this is possible if her comms stop being awful
LA is a strong-mayor system! She has a lot of administrative authority, a veto, some legislative responsibilities(eg budget), and a megaphone. She's just so hapless that we've all fooled ourselves into thinking it's weak-mayor to cope with it
there's no way she doesn't right
Not my district, but mostly liking what I see. HUGE red flag though
(related to this image, there's an almost-interesting trend where incumbents describe themselves as "councilmember" or "councilwoman" but never "councilman")
Uh oh
P.S. I hate everybody's occupation designation in CD3. All awful.
I'm just struggling to figure out what the point of her last couple months has been otherwise. Her attacks on Bass are justified, but they're not friendly pushes to improve, they're clearly aimed to destabilize. Big endorsement, maybe, I guess?
seriously why is her team incapable of clarifying any hard positions 😭 i know i'm far from the only one who's interested but needs to hear more
You can also sorta just refresh this twice a day
cityclerk.lacity.org/election/202...
