Editorial: Why L.A. needs a larger City Council (via latimesopinion)
We asked Los Angeles’ elected leaders and candidates if they would support putting a measure on the ballot to enlarge the City Council.
Enlarging the council would also help combat the zero-sum politics on display in the disgraced council members’ remarks, where politicians fight over a small number of too-large districts. More council members would mean a larger, more diverse bench of leaders, and less of a hit to the balance of representation each time a member leaves.Politicians should not choose their voters; it’s a conflict of interest that puts incumbents and their allies’ desires above what’s good for communities.
Change is possible. Voters in New York City, for instance, approved governmental reforms in 1989 that included expanding the City Council from 35 to 51 members. Before that expansion, only nine out of 35 seats on New York’s City Council were held by nonwhite council members. More council seats helped increase Black, Latino and Asian representation in City Hall; in 2021 there were 35 people of color on the 51-member council, said Joseph Viteritti, chair of the urban policy and planning department at Hunter College.
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