Laws That Shaped LA
The Laws That Shaped L.A. will spotlight regulations that have played a significant role in the development of contemporary Los Angeles. These laws - as nominated early on by a variety of experts we've been polling - may be considered by readers and nominators to have either been beneficial to the city or malevolent.
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The creation of the National Park system in 1872 gave way to L.A.'s original streets planned around natural landscapes, like mountains, streams, and the coastline.
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President of the American Planning Association weighs in on the two laws that set the basic foundation for city planning and zoning over 85 years ago.
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Without the Clean Water Act, the fetid sewers in South Los Angeles and across town would waft the smell of rotten eggs.
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Surprising fact: Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the nation, where almost 25% of jobs in City Los Angeles are in the industrial sectors.
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The "Least Interesting Policy That Dominates Most Everything" has ruined the character of our streets.
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A California law passed in 2002 mandates that by 2020, 33% of the state's electricity must come from renewable resources.
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Safety regulations require the design to allow not only the air to flow over the car, but also the people.
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This 1906 federal law allowed a city that was then about 400,000 people to grow to about four million today.
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101 year-old Prop 7 was designed to give power to the people and the opportunity to practice direct democracy through initiatives and referendums.
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The World War II hero most publicly associated with this law's passage is rumored to have, while sitting stuck in traffic, called himself a "numbskull" for doing so.
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Despite the state spending fifty percent of its funds on road-building, traffic congestion was getting worse.
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Thanks to a a 75 year old law, the mighty Los Angeles River is an exception to the-let's-look-at-our-waterways-rule.
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In the rush to grab all the newly available transportation dollars, cities such as Los Angeles made a Faustian bargain.
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The Federal Housing Administration played a dramatic role in shaping the design of post-war suburbs across America.
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Is the guy standing in the traffic island, hawking mangoes, a criminal?
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Thanks to this piece of legislation, many of the water bodies of the United States are by now, cleaner.
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According to tennis legend Billie Jean King, there has been a 1,000% increase in girls playing high school sports since Title IX.
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