Yaroslavsky

Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, savoring his convincing victory early Wednesday morning, pledged to explore all means of curbing further growth in the congested 5th District during his coming term. The councilman, who was criticized during the campaign for the amount of commercial development in communities such as Westwood, the Beverly-Fairfax area and Sherman Oaks, despite his co-sponsorship of the city's landmark slow-growth measure, conceded that more must be done to protect neighborhoods.

Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, savoring his convincing victory early Wednesday, pledged to explore all means of curbing further growth in the congested 5th District during his coming term. The councilman, who was criticized during the campaign for the amount of commercial development in communities such as Sherman Oaks, Westwood and the Beverly-Fairfax area, despite his co-sponsorship of the city's landmark slow-growth measure, conceded that more must be done to protect neighborhoods.

Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, the politically ambitious and controversial lawmaker who has reigned over the 5th District for nearly 14 years, appears headed for another term as Tuesday's primary approaches. Yaroslavsky, 40, has the support of a broad coalition of neighborhood leaders, environmentalists and political activists. He has also raised more than $215,000 for districtwide mailings, telephone banks, yard signs and other get-out-the-vote efforts, the latest campaign finance reports show.

More than 200 Rancho Park residents turned out Wednesday night to protest what they claim will be increases in traffic, parking and noise if a movie and restaurant complex is built at Pico and Westwood Boulevards. Members of the Westside Homeowners Alliance complained that the city has refused to order a full environmental impact report on the proposed project, called the Pico-Westwood Entertainment Center.

I can't say for sure whether Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will run for mayor in 2013. I don't even know with certainty whether he's already made up his mind and is just stringing the rest of us along. What I can tell you without any question, though, is that he's enjoying being asked. Before a well-connected group at the Palm last week, Yaroslavsky managed the neat trick of simultaneously insisting that he's still undecided and laying out the campaign he would wage if he jumped into the race.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky shot a torpedo at NBCUniversal's $3-billion "Evolution Plan," saying he opposes the company's proposal to build housing on part of its famous back lot in Universal City. The supervisor asked Universal Studios President Ron Meyer in a letter to abandon plans to develop nearly 3,000 condominiums and apartments at the east end of the studio's property. Yaroslavsky's district includes Universal City. The addition of such housing would have "considerable downside to Universal and to our local economy," Yaroslavsky said in the letter, dated Tuesday.

Re "Waxman Rethinks Tunneling Ban," Nov. 29 Before Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky start taking bows for resurrecting the Wilshire Boulevard subway, let's remember their failure of vision and leadership 20 years ago. Then-Los Angeles City Councilman Yaroslavsky had no problem pushing construction of the Westside Pavilion and Beverly Center, now major contributors to West L.A. traffic, while he...

Please be kind enough to print my thank-you note to Yaroslavsky and Gov. George Deukmejian for their thoughtful and considerate Christmas gifts, belated though they may be. CHRISTOPHER RIORDAN North Hollywood

Two L.A. Coliseum commissioners Thursday urged their board to reconsider the surprise decision to lift a moratorium on raves that had been in place since the drug overdose death of a 15-year-old girl in June after she attended a massive festival at the stadium. Commissioners Rick Caruso, a shopping center magnate who owns the Grove, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said there was no advance notice that the moratorium might be lifted at the Wednesday meeting, from which both were absent.