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Los Angeles City Council meeting, August 28, 2026

August 28, 2026, 10 a.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

From official records: The Los Angeles City Council adopted 22 of 30 items on Aug. 28, 2026, with no recorded no votes, including Sepulveda Basin street, lighting and signal upgrades for the 2028 Games, a new preferential parking district in Park Mesa Heights and a vote rejecting a nine-lot subdivision at 4061 W. Melrose Ave. on appeal. It continued seven items, among them five property liens and the Bens Market alcohol finding. Marqueece Harris-Dawson and John Lee were absent all day; outcomes come from council files and the Clerk's Council Vote records.

As of October 2, 2026, outcomes for the August 28, 2026 meeting 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.

Attendance and votes

• No member voted no on any of the 33 roll calls the Clerk recorded (CVVS).
• Marqueece Harris-Dawson and John Lee are recorded absent on all 33. Katy Yaroslavsky is absent on 16, and Bob Blumenfield and Tim McOsker on 15, our tally of the CVVS roll calls. One roll call, labeled “Special 01,” has no item or council file.
• Item 26 drew three roll calls: adoption 10-0, reconsideration 13-0, and adoption as amended 13-0 (CF 26-0913).

9. $126,209.48 nuisance-abatement lien on 14246 W. Victory Blvd.

• What it does: Confirms a $126,209.48 lien for nuisance abatement or code-violation costs on 14246 W. Victory Blvd., continued from July 1 (agenda).
• Who it affects: Council District 6 (CF 26-0160-S64).
• What happened: Adopted, 13-0; Marqueece Harris-Dawson and John Lee absent (CF 26-0160-S64).

13. LADOT report on its response to the I-110/Gaffey Street incident; more reports and Caltrans recommendations ordered

• What it does: Notes and files LADOT’s July 31 report on its response and communications during the I-110/Gaffey Street incident, including a timeline and an inventory of mobile traffic control devices (agenda). Amending Motion 13A directs the other departments named in the file to report within 30 days and asks LADOT and Caltrans for joint recommendations on notifying residents in future incidents.
• Who brought it: Tim McOsker, seconded by Ysabel Jurado; Imelda Padilla moved the amendment for McOsker (CF 26-0251).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: Northwest San Pedro (agenda).
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 13-0; Harris-Dawson and Lee absent (CF 26-0251).

14. LADOT report on the low-income payment option required for the speed camera pilot

• What it does: Notes and files LADOT’s July 8 report on the resources needed for the low-income payment diversion program that the speed safety camera pilot requires (agenda).
• Who brought it: Motion by Bob Blumenfield and Nithya Raman, seconded by Heather Hutt, dated Oct. 20, 2023 (agenda).
• What happened: Adopted, 10-0; Blumenfield, Harris-Dawson, Lee, McOsker and Katy Yaroslavsky absent (CF 23-1168).

19. City Planning report on carrying out Executive Directive 19 on development permit streamlining

• What it does: Notes and files City Planning’s June 29 report on carrying out Executive Directive 19, Development Services Streamlining and Modernization (agenda).
• What happened: Adopted, 10-0 (CF 26-0600-S83).

21. Sepulveda Basin 2028 Games route upgrades: ADA ramps, repaving, trees, lighting and signals

• What it does: Directs ADA curb ramps on Victory, Balboa and Burbank boulevards and Woodley Avenue, repaving Victory between Balboa and Woodley, tree planting and median landscaping, street lighting, left-turn signals at Victory and Louise and at Victory and Hayvenhurst, and a pedestrian beacon at Victory and Encino, all before the 2028 Games. The CAO must find money in the 2026-27 Games budget lines (agenda). The amendment by Padilla and Eunisses Hernandez extends the tree and landscaping work to Woodley Avenue, White Oak Avenue and Oxnard Street.
• Who brought it: Imelda Padilla, with a related motion by Ysabel Jurado and Monica Rodriguez (agenda).
• Money: No fiscal analysis was submitted (agenda).
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 13-0; Harris-Dawson and Lee absent (CF 26-0037).

26. Create Preferential Parking District No. 333 in Park Mesa Heights

• What it does: Creates Preferential Parking District No. 333 in Park Mesa Heights, bounded by Slauson Avenue, West Boulevard, 64th Street and Verdun Avenue, with two-hour and overnight limits that permit holders are exempt from (agenda).
• Money: Permit sales are to cover the district’s costs; citation fines go to the General Fund (agenda).
• What happened: The Council first adopted it 10-0, then voted 13-0 to reconsider and adopted it 13-0 as amended by Amending Motion 26A (Hutt for Harris-Dawson, Curren Price) (CVVS; Council action). The amendment text is not posted on the file.
• Who it affects: Council District 8 (CF 26-0913).

27. Grant appeal and reject a nine-lot small-lot subdivision at 4061 W. Melrose Ave.

• What it does: Grants the appeal by Dustin Cañez and Stephen Webb and overturns the Central Los Angeles Area Planning Commission, rejecting Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 84762-SL. The map would have merged three lots totaling 15,513 square feet at 4061-4069 1/2 W. Melrose Ave. into nine small lots. The Council also denied a waiver of a two-foot street widening (PLUM report).
• Who brought it: Applicant Aaron Belliston, Melrose Ten, LLC. On Aug. 12 the Council took jurisdiction over the Commission’s action on a motion by Hugo Soto-Martinez and Adrin Nazarian (PLUM report).
• Who it affects: Council District 13 (CF 26-1079).
• What happened: Adopted, 10-0; Blumenfield, Harris-Dawson, Lee, McOsker and Yaroslavsky absent (CF 26-1079).

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