The 380-parcel utility undergrounding assessment district passed by a weighted vote of impacted property owners on Tuesday. Construction work is set to begin in June.
The newly selected mayor says undergrounding utility lines along Laguna Canyon Road is one of her top priorities. Council members unanimously selected Alex Rounaghi to serve as mayor pro tem.
On Nov. 14, the front page of my Los Angeles Times ran a stark photo of a burned forest in Sheep’s Creek Calif., captioned: “The state has recently seen worsening fires driven in part by climate change.”
Bob Gentry, Lida Lenney, Toni Iseman: all three were local officials and environmental activists. In my nearly fifty years of living here, these are the mayors I remember for their courage and boldness in opposing offshore oil drilling, saving Laguna Canyon from developers’ bulldozers, and supporting climate action, respectively. Some of them drew statewide attention for their green leadership.