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Contributor: How Spanish speakers are shut out of L.A.'s planning processes
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- Walk through Los Angeles, from Highland Park to Brentwood, and you’ll hear Spanish everywhere, in markets, at restaurants, on the street.
- Public agencies in California are required to conduct community outreach, and most take that obligation seriously.
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Walk through Los Angeles, from Highland Park to Brentwood, and you’ll hear Spanish everywhere, in markets, at restaurants, on the street. Nearly a third of L.A. County residents speak Spanish at home. Many speak little or no English. Spanish is part of what makes L.A., L.A. It has been since the city was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula.
Yet when the region’s most consequential decisions get made — where a new train line runs, which neighborhood a tunnel is built under, who benefits from a major infrastructure project — Spanish-speaking residents are largely absent from the room.
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