Local News in Brief : RTD Board Member Nominated for Post
Carmen Estrada, an RTD board member and public interest lawyer, was nominated by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley to fill a vacancy on the city’s Planning Commission.
If confirmed by the City Council, Estrada will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Commissioner Dan Garcia, who in recent years served as president of the panel and became an influential, moderate voice in the debate over slow growth and overdevelopment.
Estrada, who has worked for five years at the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles and before that worked in the San Francisco office of the Mexican American Legal Education and Defense Fund, has not established a record on growth issues. But as a Bradley appointee to the Southern California Rapid Transit District board, she has often questioned and criticized top transit district management. For more than a year, she led the opposition to proposals to increase fares--a stand that some board members charged was irresponsible.
Estrada announced Thursday that she will step down from the RTD board as soon as Bradley names a replacement.
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