Actors Rally Around Community Theaters, State Legislation – NBC Los Angeles nbclosangeles.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbclosangeles.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Virtual Town Hall to Tackle Senate Housing Bills and Impacts in Santa Barbara County
Local legislators, Santa Barbara council members to help explain how measures would affect planning decisions and neighborhood character
Bills making their way through the Legislature could make it easier for developers to build housing in Santa Barbara and every other city in the state, a move that local officials say strips them of their control of their planning process and will radically redefine their community character. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
May 16, 2021
| 11:50 p.m.
Elected officials from throughout the region will come together virtually Wednesday to talk about two potentially impactful housing bills heading toward votes in the Legislature.
Automated Traffic Enforcement Struggles to Find Footing in California State Legislature
If Texas lawmakers hate it, California lawmakers must love it, right? Not so fast. May 10, 2021, 11am PDT | James Brasuell |
Steve Lopez reports on the stalled efforts to increase the amount of automated traffic enforcement in California, with two state bills focusing on automated speed enforcement in school zones and in areas with high rates of collisions.
Lopez frames the political movement as a response to the worsening safety conditions on the road during the pandemic. Nationally, there was an 8% increase in auto fatalities, with a death toll of 42,060 and that was in a pandemic year with significant reductions in traffic, explains Lopez of the well documented trend of pandemic life, reported by Planetizen in July 2020, October 2020, and January 2021, for example.
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