It looks like five or six people actually showed up to the polls in the City of Los Angeles Tuesday. Ok, just kidding. The number was actually around 250,000, which isn’t much better. As the Los Angeles Times reports, most of them went for sitting mayor Eric Garcetti and rejected a measure that would have imposed a two-year moratorium on certain development projects.
Los Angeles voters offered a strong endorsement Tuesday to policies that have brought denser development and a more urbanized lifestyle to a city once famous for its tracts of tidy single-family homes.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has championed greater development in Hollywood, downtown and other parts of the city as well as expanded mass transit service, was easily reelected, while Measure S, a slow-growth measure pushed by people opposed to some of Garcetti’s development policies, was voted down.
In addition to the development concerns, there has been growing frustration over L.A.’s rising crime as well. But that wasn’t enough to convince voters it was time to wrestle the keys away from the driver. Garcetti walked away with 80.87 percent of the vote. Incumbent council members also saw an easy road to victory.
View the results here.