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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 Is
the Los Angeles City Council Wasting Time?
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Today, an L.A. Times article
by Jessica Garrison poked a little fun at the L.A. Council.
In No
Issue Too Small for L.A. Council, Garrision covers
the ban on silly string in Hollywood as well as new stripper
rules, dumping trash, and having broken windows on your
home, to name a few new Council causes.
It seems the Council is especially fond of neighborhood
issues, rather than bigger, long term issues.
But are these issues so small?
Many of these issues might seem inconsequential if you live
in Beverly Hills or Thousand Oaks, but not in many parts of
L.A. County. Tagging and graffiti are everywhere,
all-the-time. Mattresses, couches, bags of garbage and
everything else dumped in alleys and on parkways during the
night. The city is dirty, and it shouldn't be allowed.
Then there are the shopping carts.
If I go into a grocery store and steal a 50 cent candy bar,
I'll get arrested, but if I steal a significantly more
expensive shopping cart - No problem.
A whole new business segment has been created around the
grocery business - shopping cart wrangler. And what do you
think happens when that overloaded truck creates an
accident? Who will pay?
Therefore, are these City Council regulations even
enforceable? Does anybody really even care?
I completely agree that all of these issues are important
for attracting successful business into Los Angeles and
Southern California, but how can these laws get enforced? Do
the police have the resources to to handle these
responsibilities?
It doesn't seem so.
It's great that the City Council is responsive to the needs
of neighborhoods, but without a solid plan for enforcing
these new regulations, focusing on them might be nothing
more than a waste of time.
Not that the City Council is wasting time
Some council members, such as Cindy Miscikowski have been
working with the mayor on a plan to update LAX. The
development not only will bring jobs to the area, it will
also be the first time federal funding is being tied to
school development, and other neighborhood improvements.
An unprecedented move, the L.A. Times reports, "Los
Angeles officials are also working on a deal with a
coalition of airport-area organizations, including several
school districts and labor unions, for hundreds of millions
of dollars in community improvements."
Football Stadium
No news on whether the City Council is even concerned with a
new
football stadium in Los Angeles.
Perhaps the City leaders have determined that football is
too middle class and doesn't fit L.A.'s Hollywood image.
I still have my fingers crossed.
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