Has like every restaurant in Los Angeles gone out of business

LA has to rezone for 250,000 new homes, but it is currently trying to do it without touching any single family zoning (80% of the city) in favor of forcing apartments along arterial commercial roads.

Los Angeles has to rezone the entire city. Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?

With a key vote coming on a bid to rezone Los Angeles to add 250,000 more homes, city officials released a long-awaited report on the history of exclusionary zoning.

“I am the Istanbul of targets; the Ankara of targets. Yet I am standing my ground like Izmir stands by the cerulean blue of the Aegean. These charges are false; as false, uncaring, unmotivated and destructive as Porphyrios himself, the Leviathan who terrorized the Bosphorus, the East River of Turkey

Everyone take to the steeets tonight and put the outdoor dining structures back up.

It’s pretty wild but LA city council directed city works department to come up with plans to end its harmful spot-road widening. BOE basically said “no thank you”. Now there’s a state law overriding this. Discussion tomorrow at public works committee!! Will council stand up to engineering bullies?

City Council Motion on Ending Automatic Road Widening at Public Works Committee Tomorrow - Streetsblog Los Angeles

In 2023, L.A. City Council directed city departments to determine how to "eliminate spot road widenings." Public Works Department responded: keep widening roads.

Too many of the posts on BlueSky are talking about being on BlueSky

Right now my sense is that a large percentage of upper-middle class high-income professionals (under say 45 yrs old) are actually in near financial disaster territory

Yes

I love it when Sherrod Brown sends me fundraising emails from his Sherrod (personal) account

Man occasionally motivated by a spasm of rage to call out somebody on social media as a professional fraud but I think I have so far resisted that impulse in my adult life so that’s something