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Los Angeles City Council meeting, September 4, 2026

September 4, 2026, 10 a.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

From official records: On Sept. 4, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council adopted all 13 items, including renaming Pershing Square "Biddy Mason Park", Board of Public Works approval over new Hollywood Walk of Fame stars and a Port permit amendment for Yusen Terminals. The only split vote was 8-3 on an all-hours oversize-vehicle ban in CD 8; outcomes come from council files and the Clerk's Council Vote records.

As of October 2, 2026, outcomes for the September 4, 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

• Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Imelda Padilla and Traci Park are recorded absent on all 16 roll calls; Katy Yaroslavsky on 10, and Curren Price and Nithya Raman on 5, our tally of the CVVS records.
• The only no votes: Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado and Hugo Soto-Martinez on the item 10 oversize-vehicle resolution (CF 26-0008-S7).

2. El Pueblo to plan repairs, collect back rent, fill vacant shops and study a public-private operating partnership

• What it does: Tells the El Pueblo department to put repair needs for historic buildings and vacant shops into its 2027-28 budget request as MICLA financing or find another source, report twice a year on rent arrears, write a marketing and leasing plan for vacant units, and study a request for proposals for a private partner to operate El Pueblo. The Department on Disability is to report on three units that do not meet ADA standards (committee report).
• Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado (CF 26-0161).
• What happened: Adopted, 10-0; Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Imelda Padilla, Traci Park, Curren Price and Nithya Raman absent (CF 26-0161).

5. Rename Pershing Square, 532 S. Olive St., “Biddy Mason Park”

• What it does: Asks Recreation and Parks and its board to rename Pershing Square “Biddy Mason Park” (committee report).
• Who brought it: Motion by Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Heather Hutt, July 1, 2026 (committee report).
• Coverage: The Daily News described Mason as a formerly enslaved woman who became a Los Angeles landowner, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and reported that former Councilmember Kevin de León first proposed the renaming two years earlier (Daily News, Aug. 24, 2026).
• What happened: Adopted, 11-0; Harris-Dawson, Padilla, Park and Katy Yaroslavsky absent (CF 24-0751).
• What’s next: The final step is action by the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners (committee report).

7. Hollywood Walk of Fame: the Chamber proposes new stars and the Board of Public Works approves them

• What it does: Approves revised procedures for Hollywood Walk of Fame stars. Amending Motion 7A (Hugo Soto-Martinez, Eunisses Hernandez) changes the Chamber of Commerce’s role from approving names to proposing them, and gives the Board of Public Works approval authority over the names before permits are issued.
• What happened: Adopted as amended. The Clerk lists three roll calls: 10-0, 12-0 and 11-0 (CVVS; CF 24-0489). It had been continued from Aug. 28.

8. Emergency Management to seek state Aliso Canyon grant money for an Indoor Heat Safety Fund

• What it does: As amended by Amending Motion 8A (John Lee, Tim McOsker), tells Emergency Management’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Office, with LAHD, the Community Investment Department and the CAO, to apply for the Aliso Canyon round of the state Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Grant Program to create an Indoor Heat Safety Fund.
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 11-0 (CF 26-1049).

10. Revised all-hours oversize-vehicle parking ban on streets near Harvard Boulevard and Hoover Street in CD 8

• What it does: Replaces the May 1 resolution with a revised one banning vehicles over 22 feet long or 84 inches high at all hours on both sides of West 62nd Street, Harvard Boulevard, West 61st Street and South Halldale Avenue near 61st and 62nd streets, and on South Hoover Street and West 70th and 71st streets between Hoover and Menlo Avenue (substitute motion).
• Who brought it: Marqueece Harris-Dawson; John Lee moved the substitute for him, seconded by Bob Blumenfield (substitute motion).
• What happened: Adopted, 8-3; Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado and Hugo Soto-Martinez voted no. An earlier roll call on the item was 11-0 (CVVS; CF 26-0008-S7).

13. Port of LA: 14th amendment to the Yusen Terminals permit at Berths 212-224, with Ocean Network Express guarantees

• What it does: Approves Harbor Commission Resolution 26-10779, the Fourteenth Amendment to Permit No. 692 with Yusen Terminals, LLC, and finds no new significant environmental effects beyond the Berths 212-224 terminal improvements EIR (Harbor Commission report).
• Money: No General Fund impact, per the Harbor Commission (Harbor Commission report).
• What happened: Adopted forthwith, 11-0 (CF 14-0094-S3).

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