Councilmember David Ryu, City Hall, and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti (Credit: Getty Images and iStock) A City Hall-supported ballot initiative that would impose a new square footage tax on properties. A City Council proposal to ban developers seeking project approval from donating to a political campaign. Opposition to a state measure that would increase the […]
L.A. City Council Committee Approves Fashion District Bridge Housing
This afternoon the L.A. City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee unanimously approved developing bridge housing at 1426 Paloma Street – near where Central Avenue intersects the 10 Freeway in the eastern end of the downtown L.A. Fashion District, south of L.A.’s Skid Row. The site is a privately-owned industrial warehouse, whose owner approached the county to […]
Forget celebrity mansions, this bus tour would highlight LA councilman’s alleged misdeeds
Esotouric’s Richard Schave and Kim Cooper, Council member Jose Huizar, and Times Mirror Square (Credit: Facebook, Flickr, and Getty Images) This is not your typical Hollywood stars tour. A pair of Los Angeles preservationists are planning a bus excursion centered on potential wrongdoing by Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar, a subject in an FBI […]
Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan raised money for charity from developers seeking approval for major projects
Raymond Chan and Shenzen Hazens Figueroa Street project in DTLA A fresh report about the charitable fundraising activities of a local politician appears related to an FBI probe of City Hall and prominent real estate developers in Downtown Los Angeles. Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan raised tens of thousands of dollars for a charity event from […]