Transportation Committee · Held

Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee meeting, October 7, 2026

October 7, 2026, 8:30 a.m. · Updated October 12, 2026

From official records: On Oct. 7, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council's Transportation Committee approved, as amended, the City's first transportation construction projects report for 2026-27, which listed $90.33 million in transfers and funding authority before the amendments, 4-0 with Traci Park listed as absent (recused), and approved a $63 fine for parking near crosswalks 5-0. Both go next to the Budget and Finance Committee. Of the 11 items on the agenda, the committee approved ten, two of them as amended, including a motion backing Metro's TAP-to-Exit and faregate enforcement at stations in the City 5-0, and noted and filed a City Attorney report in the 11th.

As of October 12, 2026, outcomes for the October 7, 2026 meeting of the Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles City Council come from official records posted so far, such as council files, recorded votes and filed statements. Some results may be missing until the full minutes are posted and read.

The agenda set the meeting for 8:30 a.m. in Room 401, City Hall, the committee’s regular start time (meeting schedule). The Clerk’s meeting notice gives 9 a.m., so the two records conflict on the start time.

Committee members since Aug. 31, 2026, per the Council President’s assignment letter: Heather Hutt (chair), Eunisses Hernandez (vice chair), Imelda Padilla, Traci Park and Adrin Nazarian. The agenda lists the same five members. The committee’s reports and the Clerk’s transmittal letters record all five voting yes on every item they cover, except items 1 and 4, where Park is listed as “ABSENT (Recused)” (item 1 letter, item 4 letter).

Routine item:

• Item 4 asked the Council to let the Los Angeles Department of Transportation apply for and accept $922,191 in Fiscal Year 2026-27 State of Good Repair funds from Caltrans. The money would pay for permanent electric bus chargers at the City-owned Sylmar Bus Maintenance Yard, 12776 Foothill Boulevard, which now charges its 12 electric buses with mobile chargers. LADOT says the grant needs no local match and has no General Fund impact (LADOT report). The committee approved the LADOT recommendations 4-0, with Hutt, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes and Park listed as “ABSENT (Recused),” and sent the file to the Budget and Finance Committee (transmittal letter).

1. First transportation construction projects report for 2026-27

• What it does: The City Administrative Officer’s report updates the status and funding of transportation construction, repair and infrastructure projects in the public right-of-way. It asks the Council to let the Controller move $15,744,041 between departments and funds, move $2,826,519 between accounts and appropriate $6,614,198. It would also reauthorize $59,686,000 in MICLA front-funding for the Glendale-Hyperion Complex of Bridges and up to $4,000,000 in MICLA funding for electric vehicle charger infrastructure, both in the 2026-27 adopted budget (CAO report, Oct. 1, 2026).
• Who brought it: City Administrative Officer (CF 26-1392).
• Money: The report puts the total at $90.33 million: $63.73 million in MICLA reauthorizations from the adopted budget, $0.06 million in MICLA transfers, $21.94 million from special funds, $1 million in grants, $0.2 million in bond funds and $3.4 million from the General Fund within the Capital and Technology Improvement Expenditure Program. For the charger project, the CAO estimates $4.0 million in borrowing at about 5.5 percent over 10 years, with $5.3 million in total debt service, including about $1.3 million in interest (CAO report).
• Who it affects: Projects in all Council districts, according to the report (CAO report).
• What happened: The committee approved the CAO’s recommendations with amendments, 4-0, with Hutt, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes and Park listed as “ABSENT (Recused)” (transmittal letter). The amendments drop a $74,891.60 appropriation from the Community Development Trust Fund to the Bureau of Street Lighting for the Valerio Street Lighting Project in Council District 6, which the amendment says was already funded. They add a $1,120,099 transfer from the Measure M Local Return Fund to the General Services Department to maintain bicycle and multi-use paths.
• What’s next: The committee sent the file to the Budget and Finance Committee (CF 26-1392).

2. Preferential Parking District No. 338 in Mid-City Heights

• What it does: A resolution would create the district in the residential area bounded by Washington Boulevard, West Boulevard, the 10 Freeway and La Brea Avenue. It authorizes four kinds of signs, among them two-hour parking from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and no parking from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., with District 338 permit holders exempt. LADOT would sell permits to residents, and blocks could add or remove the signs later by petition. The Board of Transportation Commissioners approved the report on Sept. 10, 2026 after a public hearing (Board report and resolution).
• Who brought it: Heather Hutt, seconded by Traci Park, on the motion the Council adopted on May 24, 2024 (CF 24-0472).
• Who it affects: Residents of Mid-City Heights in Council District 10. LADOT says residents petitioned on 12 blocks and that a parking count on Oct. 18, 2024 found at least 85 percent of legal spaces filled on five blocks. It names nearby businesses, an assisted living facility, Metro riders and an auto repair shop’s customer cars as causes (Board report).
• Money: The Board reports that permit sales will cover the cost of running and enforcing the district. Fines from citations go to the General Fund (committee report).
• What happened: The committee approved the Board’s recommendations 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes (committee report).
• What’s next: The City Clerk scheduled the file for the Council meeting of Oct. 16, 2026 (CF 24-0472).

3. State bills on e-bikes, e-motos and similar vehicles

• What it does: The Chief Legislative Analyst’s Sept. 14, 2026 report answers a Council instruction to report on pending state bills on e-bikes, e-motos and similar devices, naming AB 1492, AB 1557, AB 1569, AB 1614, AB 2346, AB 2595 and SB 1167, and to recommend resolutions of support for bills in the interest of residents’ safety (committee report; CLA report).
• Who brought it: Heather Hutt and John S. Lee, seconded by Traci Park (CF 26-0548).
• Neighborhood council positions: NoHo and Westside, for; Studio City, for if amended (committee report).
• Earlier action: The Council adopted the committees’ recommendations on Aug. 25, 2026, 14-0, with Traci Park absent (CF 26-0548).
• What happened: The committee approved the CLA’s recommendation 5-0, with Hutt, Hernandez, Padilla, Park and Nazarian voting yes (transmittal letter).
• What’s next: The council file records the file going to the Public Safety Committee and the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee (CF 26-0548). The transmittal letter is addressed to those two committees’ chairs but says the file goes to the Budget and Finance Committee, so the two records conflict (transmittal letter).

5. TAP-to-Exit at Metro stations

• What it does: Instructs the Fire Department to support Metro’s authority to install and enforce TAP-to-Exit at rail and bus rapid transit stations in the City, and to work with Metro on permitting and fire and life safety standards that would allow it to expand. It asks the Fire and Police Departments to help install TAP-to-Exit at stations with high crime, fare evasion or vandalism, and to report quarterly on service calls at Metro stations (motion).
• Who brought it: Adrin Nazarian, seconded by Katy Yaroslavsky (CF 26-1278).
• Who it affects: Metro riders and workers. The motion says Metro reported a drop in crime, fare evasion and other problems at North Hollywood Station after it began enforcing TAP-to-Exit in late 2025, and that permitting and safety concerns about station exits have slowed expansion (motion).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion as amended, 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes (committee report). The amended motion adds “modernized faregates” alongside TAP-to-Exit and asks the Fire Department to draw on fire and life safety standards used by other transit agencies. The report says Metro reported a 67 percent rise in crime and nuisance activity at North Hollywood Station before enforcement began, and that neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has done a financial analysis (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council (committee report). The council file recorded the committee action on Oct. 7 and no Council date as of Oct. 12, 2026 (CF 26-1278).

6. Active transportation projects and grant deadlines

• What it does: Asks LADOT and the Bureaus of Engineering, Street Services and Street Lighting for a list of the City’s active transportation projects and their grant deadlines, such as protected bike lanes, pedestrian safety work and greenways. Projects on the High Injury Network, near transit and venues, in disadvantaged communities or along the Festival Trail come first. It asks the City Administrative Officer to identify staffing levels and funding options, including MICLA lease revenue bonds, to build them (motion).
• Who brought it: Heather Hutt, seconded by Ysabel Jurado (CF 26-1376).
• Money: No amount is set. The motion cites Federal Highway Administration data that construction costs have risen about 70 percent since 2020 (motion).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes (committee report).
• What’s next: The City Clerk scheduled the file for the Council meeting of Oct. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1376).

7. Traffic safety at 60th Street and 10th Avenue

• What it does: The agenda lists a motion on traffic safety in and around the intersection of 60th Street and 10th Avenue. The council file’s title lists a hit-and-run crash in Hyde Park, a traffic safety assessment, infrastructure improvements and traffic calming (CF 26-1374).
• Who brought it: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Heather Hutt (CF 26-1374).
• Who it affects: Hyde Park. The agenda lists Council District 9 and the council file lists Council District 8 (agenda; CF 26-1374). The committee report is marked CD 9 (committee report).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes. It instructs LADOT, with the City Administrative Officer, to report within 14 days with a traffic safety assessment of the intersection and the nearby stretch of 60th Street, options for traffic calming such as signs, striping and speed humps, and possible funding (committee report).
• What’s next: The City Clerk scheduled the file for the Council meeting of Oct. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1374).

8. Transportation Commission’s role over City land for affordable housing

• What it does: Asks the City Attorney to draft an ordinance amending Los Angeles Administrative Code Section 22.484g(A)7 so the Board of Transportation Commissioners no longer advises on City parking sites that the Council and Mayor have approved for housing or homeless programs. The Housing Department would control City-owned land approved for affordable housing, and LADOT would keep maintaining a site until a ground lease is signed and it gets 30 days’ notice. It also asks the City Administrative Officer to update the Asset Evaluation Framework (CF 12-1549-S3) to remove the board from those approvals (motion).
• Who brought it: Eunisses Hernandez, seconded by Ysabel Jurado (CF 26-1354).
• Who it affects: Affordable housing planned on City-owned parking lots. The motion says the board’s advisory duties under that code section have slowed multiple affordable housing projects by allowing the board to overturn or delay Exclusive Negotiation Agreements and Disposition and Development Agreements approved by the Council and Mayor (motion).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council votes on asking the City Attorney to draft the ordinance (committee report). The City Clerk scheduled the file for the Council meeting of Oct. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1354).

9. Vision Zero follow-up reports

• What it does: Three reports on the file were referred to the committee. LADOT’s Sept. 24, 2026 report answers a December 2025 Council instruction and describes a citywide traffic safety education campaign, to be paid for with $500,000 the Council moved from Vision Zero Corridor Projects, and recommends that the Council note and file it (LADOT report). The City Attorney’s Aug. 14, 2026 report says the ordinance on parking near crosswalks is already drafted in CF 25-0661 (item 10), and that a California Highway Patrol study it is waiting on for other pedestrian safety ideas is not expected until 2028 (City Attorney report). The file also holds a June 3, 2026 Board of Police Commissioners report (CF 23-0600-S121).
• Who brought it: City Administrative Officer, with reports from LADOT, the City Attorney and the Board of Police Commissioners (CF 23-0600-S121).
• Money: $500,000 for the campaign. LADOT says it now gets $1 million a year for community engagement on Vision Zero street projects, and that the City has not paid for a broad education campaign since 2017-18 (LADOT report).
• Neighborhood council positions: Rampart Village, for; Los Feliz, for if amended (agenda).
• Earlier action: The Council adopted the file on Dec. 5, 2025, 12-0, with Adrin Nazarian, Imelda Padilla and Nithya Raman absent (CF 23-0600-S121).
• What happened: The committee noted and filed the City Attorney’s Aug. 14, 2026 report, 5-0, with Hutt, Hernandez, Padilla, Park and Nazarian voting yes (transmittal letter). The letter and the file record no action on the LADOT or Police Commission reports (CF 23-0600-S121).
• What’s next: The committee sent the file to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees (transmittal letter). The council file records the transfer on Oct. 8, 2026 (CF 23-0600-S121).

10. Fine for parking near crosswalks

• What it does: A draft ordinance would add California Vehicle Code Section 22500(n) to the City’s parking fine schedule. That state law bars parking within 20 feet of the approach side of a marked or unmarked crosswalk, or within 15 feet where there is a curb extension (City Attorney report).
• Who brought it: City Attorney, at the Council’s request (City Attorney report).
• Money: The fine would be $63, rising to $126 with a late penalty and $151 with a second penalty (draft ordinance).
• What happened: The committee approved the ordinance and noted and filed the City Attorney report, 5-0, with Hutt, Hernandez, Padilla, Park and Nazarian voting yes (transmittal letter). The letter gives the file number as 26-0661 and dates the City Attorney report June 13, 2026. The council file dates the report June 13, 2025 (CF 25-0661).
• What’s next: The file went to the Budget and Finance Committee on Oct. 8, 2026 (CF 25-0661).

11. Citywide First/Last Mile projects

• What it does: The agenda lists a motion on citywide First/Last Mile-eligible projects. The council file’s title lists a multiyear capital delivery plan, making the most of elements in Metro’s First/Last Mile plans, a staffing plan, an analysis of more funding, Measure M and a City contribution (CF 23-1244-S1).
• Who brought it: Imelda Padilla, Traci Park, Monica Rodriguez and Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Bob Blumenfield (CF 23-1244-S1).
• Money: The committee report says Metro told the City in November 2022 that its 3 percent Measure M contribution for rail projects in the City totals $182.5 million, and that First/Last Mile work around stations can count toward it (committee report).
• Neighborhood council positions: For if amended: United Neighborhoods, filed Oct. 5, 2026.
• What happened: The committee approved the motion 5-0, with Hutt, Park, Hernandez, Padilla and Nazarian voting yes. It instructs the Bureaus of Street Services, Street Lighting and Engineering and LADOT, with the City Administrative Officer, to report within 30 days with a delivery framework, priority projects, a staffing plan that runs past the 2028 Games, a funding strategy, and the projects meant to count toward the 3 percent requirement (committee report).
• What’s next: The City Clerk scheduled the file for the Council meeting of Oct. 16, 2026 (CF 23-1244-S1).

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