Corrections to LAT's “Time for a new conversation about L.A.’s future”
The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, March 21, 2017 Corrections appear as footnotes below. For what may be a brief moment in Los Angeles, planning is hot. Measure S, the slow [RP1] -growth, anti-development initiative, failed at the ballot box but succeeded in one very big way: It drew attention to the city’s broken land-use process and the need for a new [RP2] comprehensive vision for how Los Angeles should grow. Measure S forced city leaders and voters to confront the very real challenges facing Los Angeles, such as the lack of affordable apartments, homelessness, gentrification and how to manage the transformation of once-suburban Los Angeles into an increasingly urban city. There was near-universal agreement among proponents and opponents of “S” that the status quo isn’t working. Land-use rules are outdated and routinely ignored. Every new project is a political negotiation and a fight over [RP3] height, density and community impact, making housing