It's confirmed. First Board of Public Works hearings on #MeasureHLA appeals will be Monday 11/24 - 6 projects appealed by me. Per staff reports, recommendation is for BPW to reject 5 of 6 outright, & to admit that the city made an error on one, but still reject modest improvements that I asked for.

But the Board of Public Works appeals are a brand new process (first day to appeal was August), so we're all still trying to figure out what the city will and won't approve.

By my count, during 1st 15 months the city chose to not install upgrades (when HLA triggered, mostly by repaving) more than 50 times. (& they keep trickling in.) Anyone out there want to submit an appeal? I can help find locations near you. The more the merrier. labikas.wordpress.com/how-to-file-...

More than a dozen different individuals have filed Measure HLA appeals (many at my encouragement). Some of them filed 2-3 appeals. I have filed about 25 appeals - but I filed several locations twice when the city [IMO incorrectly] started rejecting certain kids of pedestrian district appeals.

The first Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA appeals just got pushed back a week: will be Monday 11/24. Will be 7 appeals all submitted by me.

It doesn't excuse the delays. Nothing here can meet the gravity of the death of Nadir Gavarrete. Maybe I've been in the trenches too long, but, to me, the mini-circle shows that some folks at LADOT & CD10 took this location seriously enough to go a little above the minimum. #shrug

It's not ped-paradise - permanent concrete project coming in '26 (a decade late) - but I think this "quick-build" project is OK, somewhat praiseworthy. At Stoner Park, city replaced DIY xwalks like-for-like. Here LADOT did a small betterment.

What pissed me off is that the city basically lied about a resurfacing project being exempt from HLA due to the project “involving large asphalt repair.” I couldn’t stomach that precedent.

FWIW, in my Hollywood HLA appeals I assert that the project almost entirely complies with HLA. What I appealed over is scant: one crossswalk the city narrowed, two blocks the city omitted plastic bollards, & one missing curb ramp. It’s a great project that I deliberately asked very little more from

Hollywood still isn’t entirely “in the ground” - both eastern and western ends are incomplete

Which was already the problem - the city didn’t build street safety projects before HLA either. I think HLA can shake that up.

They rejected changes I asked for (widening a crosswalk they narrowed, adding protected bike lanes where they omitted them), but the city did admit the project exemption was in error, and that HLA applies! Small victory.

LADOT wrote "Upon investigation, staff concur that in July 2024, Los Angeles ... completed resurfacing... along Hollywood Boulevard. [...] The City concurs that the project is subject to [ #MeasureHLA law] and was erroneously filed as an exemption."

Today, LADOT posted their response with a staff recommendation to partially approve my appeal labikas.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I wrote an appeal noting that the Hollywood project resurfaced more than 1/8 mile of Hollywood Blvd... so it did trigger MeasureHLA. Here's my appeal document submitted August 26: labikas.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The city wrote that Hollywood project is exempt because "project involved large asphalt repair that did not go through the intersection and re-striping the street to create a protected bike lane." (Spoiler: that's wrong.)

The city declared that the Hollywood Blvd project was exempt from #MeasureHLA via this form drive.google.com/file/d/12O33...