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Today, we learn the differences between the city of L.A. and L.A. County, someone is catching parrots with nets in trees and things to do this week.Caitlin Hernández clears up any confusion about the differences between the city of L.A., L.A. County and the unincorporated parts of L.A. County. As you might guess, the history is very complicated.man carrying what appeared to be a red-crowned parrottoday until 4:30 p.m. due to aggressive shark activity.
So to get that water to L.A. in an easier way, two years later city leaders annexed most of the San Fernando Valley. This annexation put the aqueduct in incorporated L.A. city boundaries.This meant if you lived in the city of L.A, you had access to this water. If you didn’t — well, that was unfortunate. No Owens water for you! And because of a legal provision, officials were not allowed to sell the newly available resource to places outside the city.
And that was problematic as many people didn’t want Big Brother to tell them what to do, according to Tom Sitton, retired curator at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History. That's because the Orange County registrar of voters recently concluded the city was using the wrong district boundaries and the wrong population data to calculate how many signatures were needed to trigger the recall and who should get to vote.
, primarily the Santa Ana Police Officers Association and several real estate groups, want Lopez off the council because of her support for policies they say have pushed up housing costs, and reduced support for police.LAist reached out to the police officers association and to Tim Rush, a real estate executive who chairs the recall campaign, but has not gotten a response.
"It really is about losing the gains that the community has made if this recall were to be successful," said Hairo Cortes, executive director of the Latinx youth advocacy groupLAist spoke with six outside election experts to get their opinions on the Santa Ana recall snafu, two of them county registrars of voters.Page, the O.C. registrar of voters, is right — there is a fundamental error in the Lopez recall election.
And third, the window for recalling an elected official after redistricting is pretty small. After the 2020 Census, most jurisdictions in California didn't finalize their new district maps until late 2021 or early-to-mid 2022. Santa Ana officially, which it calls wards, in April 2022. That doesn't leave much time to mount a recall campaign and bring it to voters before elected officials' terms are up.
The question caused Page to re-examine how his office reviewed the recall petition for Lopez and is administering the recall election, Page told LAst in an email. He realized the city had incorrectly used post-redistricting population numbers to calculate the number of voter signatures needed to trigger the recall — 26,370 voters instead of the correct number, 27,158.
What's less clear, Johnson reiterated, is what election law says about how to handle snafus like the one in Santa Ana."Running an elections office is so complicated," he said."In defense of the county registrar and the Santa Ana folks, the only way anyone learns this stuff is by running into it, unfortunately.", the Santa Ana City Council deadlocked 3-3 on whether to take action to cancel the election or let it proceed.
Woocher said Lopez isn't the only one who could challenge the election — the registrar has identified more than 1,000 voters who lived in Lopez's district when she was elected and therefore should be able to vote in her recall, but weren't mailed ballots. Portantino, Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and Rose Bowl representatives celebrated the new law at a news conference at the stadium on Monday.
“It’s not jazzy stuff, but it’s important stuff,” he said. “It’s plumbing, electrical, making things more green and efficient.” The bill soared through Sacramento earlier this year without a single lawmaker voting against it in the State Senate, Assembly, or in committee. The historic venues will be able to start collecting the new revenue when the law goes into effect on Jan. 1.of a man carrying what appeared to be a red-crowned parrot, captured in a net, to his car in a Temple City parking lot.
"That's why it was trying to beach itself and the shark bite was probably just an incidental thing with a shark taking an opportunity when it came across an injured marine mammal," said Alissa Deming of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.Reported aggressive shark activity has shut down Sunset Beach — from Warner Avenue to Surfside Beach — in Huntington Beach until 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Alissa Deming, the center's vice president of conservation, medicine, and science, said the shark bite was not the primary reason the mammal was stranded on shore. Given that pygmy sperm whales tend to be fairly solitary, Deming said it is unlikely whatever was causing it to be sick was a larger problem.Deming and Carey both advised beachgoers to pay attention to their surroundings and listen to instructions from lifeguards.
This all started nearly one month ago, on Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked several communities in Israel, killing 1,400 people and kidnapping around 240 people. "We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It's been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now," the aid groups said.On Sunday, Israeli forces reached the coast of Gaza, splitting the besieged area in half and essentially cutting off the north from the south, Israel's military said.
for foreign passport holders whose names appeared on the approval list, according to a statement by the General Authority for Crossings and Borders, which is run by the Hamas government in Gaza.As fighting around Gaza City continues, many Palestinians are trying to head south as Israel's military continues to urge civilians to do.
On Sunday, he made an unannounced visit to Iraq and met with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad for more than an hour. Blinken also made trips to Israel and Jordan and had a sit-down with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank. Blinken said he remained optimistic and told the media,"We're working on all of this almost every single minute."The history of this region is both complicated and fraught. Here is some context about what led up to the most recent attacks and counterattacks."one of the most dramatic escalations in violence in recent memory" adding there are"concerns the chaos could spread to the occupied West Bank and different countries in the Middle East.
" you're a local government, of course you want to develop," says Katharine Mach, who studies climate change and housing at the University of Miami."You're building a community. You're supporting livelihoods. You're supporting tourism oftentimes. there's the pragmatic dimension of, you need the property taxes."
With some of the most expensive housing in the country, California's cities, like San Diego seen here, face requirements to build more housing to boost supply.With few statewide regulations, navigating housing needs and wildfire risk falls to local governments, like Santee, Calif., a largely suburban town on the outskirts of San Diego.
Van Collinsworth has been fighting development on the outskirts of Santee for decades. "It's a recipe for chaos and potentially death and disaster," he says.The developer, HomeFed Corp., proposed the project again in 2022, this time with a phased evacuation plan that works by zones, so neighborhoods could be cleared more efficiently. Houses would be built with fire-resistant materials and have fire sprinklers.
Collinsworth and environmental groups filed a second lawsuit to halt the project, and it will be heard in court next year. It's one of several lawsuits aimed at stopping developments in California, and some of these suits wereStill, while California leads the nation in some wildfire policies, like building codes for individual homes, there are few statewide laws about making development decisions in high-risk zones. Those decisions fall to local governments alone. Afrom state Sen.
"We have this huge need for workforce housing, and that workforce housing needs a place to go," McFarland says."And so that's why all of a sudden the rush is on." This year, regulators announced they would not be guaranteeing water supplies for new subdivisions around Phoenix, limiting future construction. That has been the situation for several years in Casa Grande.
"We don't need an assured water supply because it's one lot," says Greg Hancock of Hancock Builders, which is constructing the project."Although it's 331 units, it's one lot." "Climate change and aridification have come on so much faster than most people thought," she says."Yes, there is still opportunity for growth, but there needs to be an understanding of the limits."
The marshy coastal state is a decade into a systematic statewide effort to protect residents from floodwaters. And those efforts appear to be successfully limiting new construction of homes in flood-prone areas and better protecting people who live in flood zones or are considering moving into them. New Jersey is surrounded by water. Living by the shore is one thing that draws people to the state, but as sea levels rise and storms get more intense, flood damage to homes is skyrocketing.After Superstorm Sandy flooded the town, the local government decided to support home buyouts.
"It was difficult. People were angry," he says."It wasn't an easy process. You know, somebody's talking to you about moving out of their home that they've been in for 60 years. And it's their biggest investment in their life."
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