How can planning the built environment impact the carbon footprint of Los Angeles?
It’s time for us, to quote the L.A. Planning Commission, to “Do Real Planning,” to look comprehensively at how people function—not how buildings, subway cars, passenger cars, or architecture functions, but how people function in a city. I believe Gail Goldberg and the current Planning Commission have helped us move in that direction. I offer Hollywood, which is in my district, as a great example of the 14 points that were outlined in the “Do Real Planning” document—we’re actually making these points come true in Hollywood. We want to have the city green its internal operations, but we also want it to become a magnet for green innovators around the country and around the world. We have started the Apollo Alliance to train a workforce that will be ready in the green building and clean energy sectors in some of the most job-deficient areas in Los Angeles. We have re-upped our commitment to a solar program that will be second-to-none in the country, distributing power throughout the city o
