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Katy Yaroslavsky

@KatyForLA

Coalition Builder. Environmental Lawyer. Mom x 3. LA City Councilwoman. This my personal account. For my official city account, please follow @CD5LosAngeles

Los Angeles, District 5 Katılım Ağustos 2014
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Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky@CD5LosAngeles·
This drives me nuts. @cd1losangeles and I recently convened a joint Budget & Public Works Committee meeting to get to the bottom of why we are paying so much. StreetsLA is working on a side-by-side analysis that our committees are waiting for. The bottom line is that if we are going to start delivering the level of infrastructure and services residents reasonably expect, we have to both grow revenue without raising taxes, AND spend the money we do have a lot more efficiently.
Streets For All@streetsforall

Something about LA just doesn't add up. Cost to do curb ramps per corner: Beverly Hills - $10,000 Caltrans - $15,000 City of LA - $50,000+ Why does basic infrastructure cost so much more in LA compared to surrounding cities or even our state transportation agency!?

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@HenryForLA Didn’t really spend a whole lot of time on this one motion, tbh. Most of my time this week has been spent leading the Council’s review of the Mayor’s proposed budget. Currently on hour 13 and still going! You can tune in here: youtube.com/live/2N045tFW5…
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HenryMantelforLA@HenryForLA·
We’re in the midst of a housing crisis that is causing immeasurable harm and this is what Katy Yaroslavsky is spending her time on: branding. That about sums up the political establishment in LA.
Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky@CD5LosAngeles

Big opportunity: my motion just passed to create a unified civic brand for the City of Los Angeles. Right now, more than 30 different logos exist across the LA city family. That fragmentation comes at a real cost, and we are leaving money on the table. 🧵

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Budget season is here! This is your budget, share your thoughts on what we should prioritize. Join me next Tuesday, April 21 at 6 PM for a virtual town hall. Sign up here: tr.ee/xtLBydFU0B
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Katy Yaroslavsky@KatyForLA·
Angelenos are asking themselves two fundamental questions: Can I afford to live here? And do I want to live here? Our job at City Hall is to make sure the answer to both is yes.
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The LA Housing Department just released a major report on affordable housing funding. cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/202… Here’s the bottom line: time is money, and we’ve been wasting A LOT of both. That’s true for both market rate and affordable housing. Let’s talk about affordable:
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The countdown officially begins. One month from TODAY, the Metro D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega officially opens 🥳
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Katy Yaroslavsky@KatyForLA·
Proud to have the support of the 800k workers and 300 unions represented by the LA County Federation of Labor. My mom was a UTLA charter member. My dad was a union steward with SEIU and NUHW. Growing up in a union household shaped how I lead and why I stand with working families
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I introduced legislation last year to allow taller single-stair buildings in LA. It didn’t advance, and the state has since paused changes to the building code. As LA plans for more multifamily housing near transit, this reform would support better design and family-sized homes.
California YIMBY@cayimby

cayimby.org/blog/the-singl…

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I just voted yes to approve the new K-Line North Metro Line. If you live in West Hollywood and work in Century City, there will be a train for you. If you are a nurse in South Los Angeles commuting to Cedars-Sinai for work, or want to go to the Hollywood Bowl for a show, there will be a train for you. If you want to go see the Kehinde Wiley sculpture coming to Destination Crenshaw and then go to the new David Geffin Galleries at LACMA, there will be a train for you. And if you want to live near that train, there should also be housing that is actually affordable for you. That is the kind of Los Angeles I believe in, and that is the Los Angeles we are building.
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Yesterday, I introduced a resolution in support of AB 1903. We need more pathways to first-time homeownership in Los Angeles, and this bill will help us get there. Making it easier to build in Los Angeles is one of the fastest ways to address the housing crisis. We need clear paths to create new middle-class homeownership opportunities, but since 2005, condo and townhome construction has dropped by 90%. We are aggressively pushing changes at the local level through City Planning's "Missing Middle LA" program, but there are key barriers at the state level that we need changed. The City must be a partner with the State to move this forward.
California YIMBY@cayimby

AB 1903 will reduce housing costs and increase opportunities for homeownership by rewarding high-quality construction and allowing builders to fix problems in newly constructed homes before triggering costly lawyer fees and court proceedings.

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I got a quote a few years ago just to heat the Pan Pacific Park pool so we could keep it open year-round. They said we were better off rebuilding it, but quoted us $30 million. For a pool. The way the city manages capital projects and contracting is completely broken. That’s part of why I created the Budget and Finance Advisory Committee when I took over as Budget chair last year. It brings together experts in municipal finance, real estate, and construction to recommend reforms. The Controller and I are also working to overhaul our contracting process. The status quo is unacceptable and it’s why we can’t have nice things even though we pay out the nose to live here.
Moses Kagan@moseskagan

Am 100% confident I could re-build this pool for less than the **$28,000,000** the City of Los Angeles has budgeted.

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Jacki Karsh@JackiKarsh·
A Jewish LA City Councilmember is organizing a chametz pickup before Passover. That’s what happens when people who understand a community are in the room…the city works differently. This is a small act, but it’s not performative. It’s what representation looks like in real life. @KatyForLA
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Happy St. Patricks Day, and happy 90th to Tom Bergins!! ☘️
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DWP still has a lot of work to do on their end to clear the backlog and fix the bottlenecks holding projects up. But this is a really good start.
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This extra layer of review was slowing the work down by A LEAST 6-8 months. If Council passes this ordinance, the TCRC goes away.
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These maps show the “Streets of Significance” in CD5. Any work affecting traffic on these streets has to go through the TCRC. If DWP needs to close a lane or street to turn on power for a building, the committee has to review and approve the traffic plan first.
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There are so many housing projects across LA that are ready to open but still waiting for DWP to turn the power on.
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Haven't been on here in a while, but wanted to share that the CA just dropped an ordinance to repeal the Traffic Control Review Committee in its entirety. Here’s why that’s a huge deal:
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