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Council moves to lower supermajority for overruling taxi commission, continues ordinance one day for code edits
Summary
The council voted to reconsider the taxicab ordinance and amend it so the council may act with a two-thirds vote (instead of a 12-vote requirement) to modify taxi commission decisions; the item was continued one day to allow the city attorney to prepare precise code language.
The Los Angeles City Council reconsidered the taxicab rates item and voted to change the ordinance governing the Taxicab Commission so that the council may overturn or modify commission decisions by a two-thirds council vote rather than the current 12-vote requirement.
Council Member Bernsen asked for reconsideration of item 1 to align the Taxi Commission’s review…
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