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Critically Speaking: Pulling the plug on freeway expansion

Why it’s important to show up for your community.

Critically Speaking: Pulling the plug on freeway expansion
North Long Beach residents raise their hands in opposition to a planned expansion of the 91 Freeway Monday July 22, 2024. Photo by Jason Ruiz

A big part of my job is attending public meetings.

That's meant long nights in city hall, churches (sometimes in their basements), park community buildings and even tents set up in the parking lots of parks to accommodate the overflow crowds who wanted to keep the city’s zoning closer to 1950 than 2018, when the controversial land use element update was adopted.

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