Care to see how wide the chasm is in L.A. between suburbanites on the edges of the city and more inner-city folks?
Check out this excellent LA Times piece by my former colleague Reed Johnson about differences in thought between councilmembers Jose Huizar, who represents most of downtown and nearby areas, and Mitchell Englander, who represents the city’s most conservative neighborhoods of the Northwest San Fernando Valley.
Huizar proposes ending the blanket ban on murals and street art in most of the city and allowing even private residences to add such murals after going through a permitting and neighborhood approval process. Englander worries that such murals can change the nature of a neighborhood.
Some fans of street art and public murals might, possibly, argue that such a change might be a good thing from time to time.