CITY TURNS NEIGHBORHOOD'S STREET LIGHTS BACK ON.Byline: - James Nash A west Chatsworth neighborhood once again basked in the glow of 25 street lights Monday night, the first time the neighborhood was illuminated since Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. officials switched off the lights in February over a billing dispute. The Los Angeles Department of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. reactivated the lights Monday after receiving a petition Thursday that will trigger a second election on paying for street lighting. In the first election early this year, residents rejected the DPW's demand that they pay three years of retroactive charges that the city failed to collect because of a bookkeeping bookkeeping, maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. error. After the DPW DPW n abbr (US) (= Department of Public Works) → ministerio de obras públicas dropped its demand for retroactive payments, residents signed a petition calling for another mail-in election. ``Ninety-nine percent of us are very happy and grateful,'' said Angora Avenue resident Amy Small, who credited a Daily News article for City Hall's swift action. ``Obviously, there should have been a better way to deal with this before they turned off the lights in the first place.'' Residents of the neighborhood near Chatsworth Park complained that the darkness at night could make them vulnerable to crime and accidents. Many also decried the DPW's decision to seek retroactive payments, which they said would penalize pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. them for the city's mistake. DPW spokeswoman Cora Jackson Fossett said the department regrets its error - which originated 33 years ago when the neighborhood was omitted from lighting fee districts - and was happy to reactivate re·ac·ti·vate v. 1. To make active again. 2. To restore the ability to function or the effectiveness of. re·ac the lights. ``Our goal is to work together with the community,'' she said. |
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