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Measure S, originally known as the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, was considered by voters in the city of Los Angeles in the March 7, 2017, election. It would have imposed a two-year moratorium on development projects seeking variances from some aspects of the city's zoning code, made changes to the environmental impact statement requirements in the code, and required the city to update ...
Entryway to Los Angeles Chinatown, facing northwest on Broadway Avenue and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Whereas a few Chinatowns, notably the ones in Manhattan and Chicago, have been experiencing population growth and urban renewal, many others (such as San Francisco, Houston and Vancouver) have been facing urban decay over the years.
With its reputation, it had led to Los Angeles being referred as "The Gang Capital of America". Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing gap between the rich and the poor, making Los Angeles one of the most socioeconomically divided cities in the United States. [112]
By Lisa Leff SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a 31-year-old Los Angeles law that bars people from living in parked vehicles, saying the vaguely written statute ...
Osbee Sangster is a 73-year-old resident who fled her Los Angeles-area home at 3:30 a.m. local time Wednesday. She noticed a conspicuous absence as fire trucks rolled through her neighborhood ...
Los Angeles law enforcement has warned that looters will be arrested and prosecuted aggressively as wildfires scorch Los Angeles and prompted 180K evacuations.
In 1991 the Los Angeles City Council approved a measure, backed by the Friends of the Watts Branch Library, the 15th District Council Office, and the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) of the City of Los Angeles, to build a new library as a part of the 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) Watts Civic Center. $1.3 million from Proposition 1, the branch library ...
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]