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Los Angeles City Council District 14 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. The district, which has a large Latin American population, includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, Downtown Los Angeles and parts of Northeast Los Angeles.[1] Councilman Kevin de León has represented the district since 2020. He replaced José Huizar after winning outright in the special election held during the 2020 California primaries; he was officially appointed on October 15, 2020. Huizar had vacated the seat earlier in the year due to bribery and corruption allegations.[2]

Los Angeles City Council District 14
City district
Country	United States
State	California
County	Los Angeles
City	Los Angeles
Government
• Type	City district
• Body	Los Angeles City Council
• Councilmember	Kevin de León (Democratic)
Website	councildistrict14.com

Geography

Modern

District 14 consists of all or part of the neighborhoods of the Downtown, Boyle Heights, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, El Sereno, Garvanza, Glassell Park, Lincoln Heights, and Monterey Hills.[3] The Boyle Heights and Northeast sections are connected by a narrow strip of land.

Historic

A new city charter effective in 1925 replaced the former "at large" voting system for a nine-member council with a district system with a 15-member council. Each district was to be approximately equal in population, based upon the voting in the previous gubernatorial election; thus redistricting was done every four years. (At present, redistricting is done every ten years, based upon the preceding U.S. census results.)[4] The numbering system established in 1925 for City Council districts began with No. 1 in the north of the city, the San Fernando Valley, and ended with No. 15 in the south, the Harbor area.

District 14 has always represented Eagle Rock and Highland Park. As the city's population increased, it has expanded southward. The rough boundaries or descriptions of the district have been as follows:

• 1925: The communities of Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Annandale.[5]
• 1928: Westward extension to Allesandro Street.[6]
• 1932–33: East boundary: South Pasadena and Pasadena. North: Glendale. West: Glendale Boulevard.[7]
• 1935: Same general area as 1932, with the western boundary at Griffith Park,[8] thus including the Atwater area.
• 1940: Same general area as previously, with the west boundary at Glendale Boulevard.[9]
• 1955: Rose Hill [sic] is now included in the district's description.[10]
• 1971: "The district begins in the East Los Angeles Mexican-American barrios of El Sereno and Lincoln Heights extends westward across the Pasadena Freeway to Anglo middle-class homes in Glassell Park, Highland Park, Hermon, and Eagle Rock through Griffith Park. Around the western edge of the district is the Los Feliz District, with some of the city's more expensive homes."[11]
• 1986: No longer includes Los Feliz. Southern reach includes El Sereno, College Avenue, Huntington Drive and portions of Alhambra Avenue and Valley Boulevard, then across the San Bernardino Freeway to Brooklyn Avenue, East Beverly Boulevard, Fourth Street and Whittier Boulevard.[12]

Officeholders

District 14 has been represented by 10 men and no women.

Portrait	Name	Term of office
	Isaac Colton Ash	1925–1927
	William G. Bonelli	1927–1929
	Charles A. Holland	1929–1931
	Edward L. Thrasher	1931–1943
	John C. Holland	1943–1967
	Art Snyder	1967–1985
	Richard Alatorre	1985–1999
	Nick Pacheco	1999–2003
	Antonio Villaraigosa	2003–2005
	José Huizar	2005–2020
	Kevin de León	2020–present

See also

• Los Angeles City Council districts
• Los Angeles City Council
• Torristas and Molinistas, a term used to describe a political feud in Los Angeles in the last part of the 20th century

References

External links

• Official Los Angeles City Council District 14 website
• City of Los Angeles: Map of District 14

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