Announcement from ACT-LA Executive Director Laura Raymond

Good afternoon from City Hall, where the John Ferraro chambers are packed for the Planning & Land Use Management committee’s consideration of the Citywide Rezoning program — among other major proposals.

Cm. Raman: "These policies are challenging for me in that they concentrate new housing construction where muiltifamily housing already exists" — says we should be protecting 'naturally occurring' affordable housing, not "putting a target on it as this proposal does"

Re: the exemption of single-family zoning from the affordable and mixed-income housing incentive programs, Cm. Raman says "option 1 is the most realistic at getting us to our goals" — "I would also urge you consider at least option 2 and 6"

Great title for a declaration

Chicago on 35mm

Big day today. We got some important new tenant protections through the rezoning program, and made an expanded version of the TOC program permanent. And yet --

Just want to point out that all those who voted for more housing yesterday are considered the MORE progressive people on the body. A third of the LA City Council, a historically anti-housing body, supported more housing across LA, led by progressives. Feels like a big deal!

Took a shot at recapping THE YEAR IN LA. This is a picture of me right after I finished. "Link in reply and bio!" I'm saying.

"This event is not only not over, but it's just getting started and will get significantly worse before it gets better" UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain says in briefing on #palisadesfire, saying the strongest winds and lowest humidity are yet to come.

UPDATE: active fire on 4th and Adelaide. Mandatory evacuation from ocean to 11th, north of Montana.

UPDATE AND CORRECTION: no fire on Adelaide. This was misreported by official city channels. But there are several spot fires in Santa Monica canyon and the city’s evacuation order stands.

If you lost your home or business in the wildfires, here’s what to do next: latimes.com/business/story… Important service journalism from my colleagues Andrea Chang and Caroline Petrow-Cohen

Sending good thoughts to everyone in LA, America’s most beautiful city

Caruso told the New York Times that his private crew was complaining that the pressure on fire hydrants was low, so…

Spreadsheet of renters that lost housing in the LA County Fires: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

A furnished Bel Air home went on Zillow today for $29,500 / month. A few months ago, it was asking $15,900. I called up the agent. She said she told her client to re-list the home after this week's L.A. fires. "People are desperate," she said. "You can probably get good money."

If you're looking for a way to help out from home, reporting illegal rental price gouging is a great way to do it. @SAJE and @LATU's chelsea has created a tool to crowdsource price gouging reporting. 1/2

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.

Ethics panel rejects $17,500 fine for L.A. City Council candidate; 2 members say it's not enough latimes.com/california/sto…