For Use of the Los Angeles City Charter Assembly on Council Size
Supporting documents. Please use these versions for reading in other languages (button to change languages on top right.
• Charter Commission Memo on Council Expansion
• Rewrite LA Info for Assembly Participants
• Stephen Erickson Answers to Assembly Question From 030126
• VIDEO: LA Forward on City Council and Expansion
• National Civic League Comparative Analysis on LA City Council and Size
• National Civic League: Save Our Cities. Make Urban Political Systems More Democratic
• Pacific Research Institute: US Cities Can Learn From Stockholm
• LA City Clerk on Council Size historically
• Pat Brown Institute on Council Expansion
• Global Cities Comparison Testimony
• Fair Rep on La City Council and Districts
• Single Member vs. At-Large Districts
• Graves Memo on Ethnic and Racial Voting Blocs
• Rose Institute on Revolution in City Councils
• 2023 Report from City's Chief Legislative Analyst to City Clerk on Council Expansion
• Collective Analysis of 3 Council Expansion Models
• CalRCV Memos and Email to Commission on RCV and District Size
• Olympic Cities Comparison on City Council/Parliament Size
• California Common Cause on District Numbers and Growth
• On District Drawing, Voting Rights Act, Race and Underrepresented Groups
• ZenCity Online Poll February 2026 on Charter Reform, for Charter Commission
• Video from LA Forward (immediately below0
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