Mayor Sam's Sunday Brunch

Zev Yaroslavsky rolls to an inevitable candidacy for Mayor next year hitchhiking on the development issue. This time it's an op ed piece in today's LA Times. Zev makes a point he's been doing so for a while; that the housing required to accomodate LA's growth can be obtained without LA's elected officials taking a hatchet to zoning laws and community plans. Zev claims than an additional one million housing units can be built within existing code and plans. And he mentions the Coming City Superstorm I've been telling you about; one Zev could ride all the way to Getty House.

It's bad enough new Daily News editor Carolina Garcia has to move from Monterey to Woodland Hills; the usual Valley naybobs are chomping at the bit to "acclimate" her to their "vision" of the Valley. Good profile of Garcia at the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.

Charlotte Laws and other Neighborhood Council leaders are pushing for a series of changes to the charter of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Congress. The biggest change is to the name of the organization which would become the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition. Another change Zuma Dogg may be interested in would be that the LANCC's Senate would change it's name to the "Board of Delegates" and those who have enjoyed the title of "Senator" would now be referred to as "Delegates."

Speaking of Neighborhood Councils, the first round of elections for the advisory panels administered by the City Clerk's office are coming soon. Though many of Councils have required stakeholders to present some form of ID in order to run and vote, the City's new policy (which will be uniform in the next round of elections) is to simply allow someone to "self-affirm" their status a stakeholder, which doesn't really matter anyway because the City's new policy is that "you're a stakeholder if say you are" completly eliminating some requirement that Council members have a real connection to the community in which they wish to serve. Perhaps when it comes to taxes we could self-affirm if we owe and declare the basis for it.

Garcia to Helm Daily News?

Reporter G is speculating that Carolina Garcia, executive editor of the Monterey County Herald, may be the next editor of the Daily News. Garcia's appointment if it comes would replace the long time reign of Ron Kaye as the head of the former MOLDY GREEN SHEET, who resigned last week.