Madeline Janis Aparicio in the Daily News

The Hollywood and Vine development (see below) is what happens when you ask the right questions about a city's growth: what kind of jobs are we creating? Are we locating them close to transit? Are we putting density in the right places? In an opinion piece published in today's Daily News, CRA commissioner Madeline Janis Aparicio explains why it's so important to ask every development how it will help the neighborhood in which it locates, and how the city can work smarter—not just harder—to attract business to Los Angeles.