{"id":902082,"date":"2026-06-30T02:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/902082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:11:19","slug":"la-property-owners-send-a-message-to-the-city-no-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/902082\/","title":{"rendered":"LA property owners send a message to the city: No confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA property owners have rejected<\/a> new streetlight fees in a special vote \u2014 by an 80-20 margin.<\/p>\n

It is a massive vote of no confidence in the City Council.<\/p>\n

The council had asked property owners to approve a special assessment to cover the rising cost of maintaining streetlights, many of which have been damaged by copper thieves.<\/p>\n

The council also wanted to install solar streetlights in an effort to meet its \u201cgreen\u201d goals.<\/p>\n

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The vote was a massive vote of no confidence in the City Council. Getty Images<\/p>\n

One might have expected the assessment to pass, just as a sales tax passed in LA County last month.<\/p>\n

Instead \u2014 total rejection.<\/p>\n

Granted, the vote \u2014 a special election under Proposition 2018<\/a> \u2014 was limited to property owners. And the more your property was worth, the more your vote was weighted.<\/p>\n

Plus, the mail-in ballots had to arrive by Election Day to be counted.<\/p>\n

If the city\u2019s residents as a whole had been able to vote, under the usual California rules, it is possible the assessment would have passed.<\/p>\n

But the old rules, from an earlier generation, prevailed. And the property owners had their say.<\/p>\n

\"LA<\/p>\n

LA property owners have rejected new streetlight fees in a special vote \u2014 by an 80-20 margin. Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Their message is clear: Property owners have had enough of the city\u2019s negligence, wasteful spending and poor management.<\/p>\n

They know they are not getting value for their money.<\/p>\n

In recent years, those who pay property taxes in LA have had to struggle with homeless encampments on their doorsteps, which the city has been slow to remove; wildfires that the city could not put out, for lack of fire engines and water; a crime wave that erupted after radical protesters demanded cuts in police funding; and schools that remained closed for more than a year during the pandemic, leaving an entire generation of children with major gaps in their education.<\/p>\n

Adding insult to injury, the City Council has often continued to pursue its ideological goals as if delivering basic services didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Whether it was saving the planet from climate change; fighting systemic racism; or providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants, the City Council always had a reason to avoid the mundane tasks of governing.<\/p>\n

With this resounding election result, property owners told the members of the City Council: We pay enough taxes and fees already. The costs are outrageous. It\u2019s time for you to do your jobs.<\/p>\n

Learn to manage with what you have, and live within your means.<\/p>\n

Protect the city \u2014 its people, and its infrastructure. And keep the lights on without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA property owners have rejected new streetlight fees in a special vote \u2014 by an 80-20 margin. It…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":902083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5310,2961,365255,224,5337,141292,9423,365257,365258,362681,365256],"class_list":["post-902082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city-council","tag-la","tag-la-property-owners","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-property-owners","tag-property-taxes","tag-special-assessment","tag-special-vote","tag-streetlight","tag-vote-of-no-confidence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116836637869061616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}