Zev Yaroslavsky

Zev Yaroslavsky
Yaroslavsky in 2009
Member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
from District 3
In office
December 1, 1994 – December 1, 2014
Preceded byEdmund D. Edelman
Succeeded bySheila Kuehl
Chair of Los Angeles County
In office
December 6, 2011 – December 4, 2012
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor)
Succeeded byMark Ridley-Thomas
In office
December 5, 2006 – December 4, 2007
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
In office
December 4, 2001 – December 3, 2002
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
In office
December 3, 1996 – December 2, 1997
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
Chair Pro Tem of Los Angeles County
In office
December 7, 2010 – December 6, 2011
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor Pro Tem)
Succeeded byMark Ridley-Thomas
In office
December 6, 2005 – December 5, 2006
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor Pro Tem)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
In office
December 5, 2000 – December 4, 2001
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor Pro Tem)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
In office
December 5, 1995 – December 4, 1996
Preceded byMichael D. Antonovich (Mayor Pro Tem)
Succeeded byYvonne Brathwaite Burke
Member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 5th district
In office
July 1, 1975 – December 1, 1994
Preceded byEdmund D. Edelman
Succeeded byMike Feuer
Personal details
Born (1948-12-21) December 21, 1948 (age 75)
Los Angeles, California
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBarbara Yaroslavsky
Children2
RelativesKaty Young Yaroslavsky (daughter-in-law)
ResidenceLos Angeles, California
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA, MA)
WebsiteArchived

Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a politician from Los Angeles County, California. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from District 3, an affluent district which includes the San Fernando Valley, the Westside of Los Angeles and coastal areas between Venice and the Ventura County line.[1] He was first elected to the board in 1994. Yaroslavsky served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 to 1994.

During his tenure in Los Angeles politics, Yaroslavsky played an influential role in limiting housing construction and development in the city, leading a "slow-growth movement."[2] Yaroslavsky argued in 1987 that Los Angeles had "filled up."[3] He authored Proposition U, a successful 1986 ballot initiative, that the Los Angeles Times called "the largest one-shot effort to limit development in the city's history."[4]

In the 1990s, he blocked expansion of light rail into Santa Monica and authored Proposition A, a successful 1998 ballot initiative which prevented new expansions of the Los Angeles Metro Rail.[5]

  1. ^ Official website of Zev Yaroslavsky Archived April 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Rohrlich, Ted (1987-11-15). "Winds of Change: The Slow-Growth Movement: Economic Effects of Rising Calls to Limit Development Are Uncertain". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ Reinhold, Robert; Times, Special To the New York (1987-09-22). "Growth in Los Angeles Poses Threat to Bradley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Elkind, Ethan N. (2014). Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City. University of California Press. pp. 180–181, 185. ISBN 978-0-520-27827-1. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt5hjhqt.

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