For Immediate Release

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky addresses Neighborhood Defense League of California Roundtable

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008, at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel:

The Neighborhood Defense League of California Roundtable sponsored a Community Leadership Forum with the purpose of developing a common strategy to deal with State land use mandates. Los Angeles County Third District Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was the keynote speaker at the Santa Barbara symposium attended by county and city government officials, civic leaders and citizen groups.

Supervisor Yaroslavsky addressed the group of nearly 150 on neighborhood and grass-roots strategies to protect local control of land use and community planning. Citing how special-interest sponsored legislation in Sacramento can destroy the long and carefully developed fabric on neighborhoods, the three term Supervisor extolled the beauty and uniqueness of Santa Barbara, urging the many groups in attendance to band together and build a ‘critical mass’ when confronting these types of mandates from Sacramento. “This is political power,” Yaroslavsky said, noting leaders in the audience from like-minded groups throughout Santa Barbara County.

Supervisor Yaroslavsky concluded his remarks by proposing a statewide coalition of county organizations who support community control of their own neighborhoods.

The Neighborhood Defense League of California, formerly Homeowners Defense Fund, is a non-partisan, non-profit 501 C4 organization whose mission is to accommodate growth while preserving neighborhood character.

This Roundtable event was the fourth recently hosted by NDLCA.