Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday
If you want to legally mount a windshield GPS unit in your car you'll have to wait a bit. The LA Times reports that a bill by State Senator Jenny Oropeza of Long Beach is being held back to avoid becoming collateral damage of Governor Schwarzeneggers's promise to veto any bill until California has a budget.
Britney Spears is denying reports that she will pay a murderous lesbian stripper in a remake of the 60s cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to be helmed by Quentin Taratino. A spokesperson for the pop diva says Britney wants to concentrate on her next album.
Labels: arnold schwarzenegger, britney spears, GPS, jenny oropeza, quentin tarantino, transit tax
Posted by Michael Higby @ 8/12/2008 03:00:00 AM
3 Comments:
This city is getting too damn crowded. Wish we had another earthquake to send the foreigners packing.
Zuma, no doubt you will be speaking on this one.
....The City Council this week is expected to vote on a controversial plan intended to lay the groundwork for future development in Los Angeles. It is particularly relevant to Downtown, currently a hub for new construction.
On Wednesday, Aug. 13, a cluster of recommendations on meeting the city's housing needs over the next six years is expected to go before the Council for approval. The document, known as the Housing Element, is periodically updated and is part of the city's General Plan. Some of the strategies outlined in the latest draft of the Housing Element were hotly contested last month during a joint meeting of the council's Planning and Land Use Management and Housing, Community and Economic Development committees.
More than 60 developers, business leaders, residents and housing advocates turned up at City Hall on July 29 to weigh the proposal, with many of the sticking points potentially impacting Downtown.
By the way...
It certainly doesn't help to build transit systems such as the Red Line, Orange Line, etc. when once those systems are up and running the MTA cancels local bus service around those lines, forcing the transit dependent to move from local lines that may be more convenient for their commute, in order to artificially boost ridership on the new toy.
6:31am. I agree that crowding is increasing in the city.
The rest of the statement is simplistic, unrealistic and itself demonstrates anti-American values of discrimination.
"Wish we had another earthquake to send the foreigners packing.
" If you mean non-native Californians, you may have something, but it's not legal and we might be surprised with who that could exclude.
But it sounds as if you are not limiting the wish to "illegal" aliens which has a legitimate basis, but instead reflecting thoughts of a xenophobe which is bothersome.
And if you think about it, the earthquake here is preferable to experiencing an earthquake in any of the many underdeveloped countries such "foreigners" may have come from in Europe, Asian, and the western hemisphere countries. Scenes of complete disaster are often all that's left.
L.A. would be safer in an earthquake because of the building and safety codes requirements that are stricter than most of the rest of the country because of earthquake risk.
Even the lowly City Council is very well protected by the expensive retro-fitting of City Hall several years ago, and they know it- that is, they KNOW THAT they are "well-protected", but being "lowly" in both thought and deed still has not struck them to cause any improvement.
By the way, the descriptions of what's coming up are wide ranging but you did not conclude with your opinion of any of that, if that was your primary concern.
I think that the expanding sprawl of the entire region makes it even LESS amenable to routing transit systems.
The plan of the city "Leaders" is to ultimately eliminate parking and is hostile to car ownership, (but they nearly completely exclude themselves from the "plan" by keeping single family houses, have cars often on the luxurious end, with preferential parking treatment), and all this flies in the face of reality while favoring dense development that worsens all conditions for us.
L.A. native Latino resident
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