Council, planning and power in Los Angeles.
A 2-to-2 committee vote held the plan for further study. The study has no author, no deadline and no meeting to return to until late August — and both sides are using the gap.
A plan to convert a mile of Vine from four lanes to three, removing about ninety parking spaces, split a City Council committee 2 to 2 and was held for further study.
A City Council committee advanced a cheaper, tiered permit system for the sidewalk vendors who crowd Hollywood's streets, the densest such corridor in the city.
The Bureau of Street Lighting wants to convert the neighborhood's ornamental cast-iron lamps to LED. Preservationists say the savings are real and the light is wrong.
Measure supporters say the bond would pay to expand and seismically retrofit dozens of branches. Here is what the money would and would not do for the local library.
The two-week action was the neighborhood's largest since the city's home-sharing rules took effect, targeting whole-unit listings that investigators say operate as unlicensed hotels.
An update to the city's adaptive-reuse rules cleared committee, naming two long-vacant Hollywood Boulevard office buildings as early conversion candidates.
A proposed 18-month trial would waive municipal permit fees for small productions, aimed at the friction driving modest shoots out of Los Angeles.
Street Services says its crews patched more than nine thousand potholes across the district in six weeks. Residents point out the count says nothing about which streets got skipped.
A regional board moved roughly $18 million toward widening sidewalks and adding shade above the subway stop, though merchants have heard plaza promises before.
