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City officials are working on a proposal that would allow developers to build stores, restaurants and up to 1,000 housing units, many of them artists' lofts, on 11 acres near the Metro Rail subway station in North Hollywood. The Community Redevelopment Agency tentatively plans to seek competitive proposals on the project early this year, but more than a dozen developers have already expressed interest, city officials said.

City redevelopment officials are working on a proposal to have developers build stores, restaurants and up to 1,000 housing units, many of them artists' lofts, on 11 acres near the Metro Rail subway station in North Hollywood. The Community Redevelopment Agency tentatively plans to seek competitive proposals on the project early this year, but the agency has already received interest from more than a dozen development firms, city officials said.

To build or not to build more subways? That is the question facing Los Angeles County voters Tuesday when they decide the fate of a sweeping ballot measure that would prevent the use of the local sales tax to build subway lines. Proposition A seeks to prevent new subway construction by outlawing the use of the county's 1% transit sales tax to plan, design, construct or operate new subway lines.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's inspector general has concluded that weak or nonexistent internal controls allowed a major engineering firm to overcharge the agency more than $2.1 million for work on the Metro Rail subway project.

In the first case of its kind in California, a major contractor on the Metro Rail subway project in North Hollywood has been cited and fined $1,750 for violating new worker safety regulations aimed at protecting employees of other companies working on the same job.

With the Los Angeles congressional delegation uniting behind finishing the Metro Rail subway to the San Fernando Valley, a key House panel Thursday recommended the Metropolitan Transportation Authority receive $62 million for that project next year.

In a potentially serious setback for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a key congressional panel recommended Wednesday that the Los Angeles subway receive $30 million in the next fiscal year--far less than the $100 million sought to continue building the Metro Rail project to North Hollywood. If approved by Congress, the recommendation of the U.S.

An armed Metro Rail passenger was fatally shot by Long Beach police when he pointed a gun at two officers after being told to drop his weapon, authorities said Saturday. The unidentified man, described as being in his 20s, was seen by passengers about 8:30 p.m. Friday carrying a handgun on the southbound Blue Line train as it approached the 5th Street station in Long Beach, said police spokeswoman Karen Kerr Owens.

Eastside politicians have about as much chance of halting subway construction to North Hollywood as the Clippers do of winning this season's NBA championship. But the frustrations expressed this week by Latino elected officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's recovery plan are bound to increase the MTA's troubles in Washington on the eve of crucial funding decisions. At Wednesday's MTA board meeting, Rep.

Moving to counter efforts to derail a subway extension to the Eastside, Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Gloria Molina has unleashed a scathing written attack on acting MTA chief Julian Burke, accusing him of manipulative management.