Is Los Angeles city too big?
Yes. With 3.6 million residents, the City of Los Angeles is larger then 25 states. The City is so large that St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Manhattan could all fit within the city boundaries. Each Council person represents 235,000 constituents while in most major cities the average council person represents 20,000 to 40,000 constituents. That is why people in Los Angeles feel so disconnected from Los Angeles City government. Howard Husock of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, states “as government jurisdictions get larger, control gradually melts away from voters; realizing the difficulty of influencing officials… individuals give up.” Many residents feel Los Angeles has grown too large, bureaucratic and unresponsive.
