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Last Updated: June 28, 2026Tags:

By Constance Sommer

Why did Los Angeles design a street repaving plan that prioritizes Bel Air over Boyle Heights? Not for the reasons you might think.

After nine months without resurfacing a single street, the city of Los Angeles has begun the arduous task of ripping out undermined asphalt and replacing it with new pavement. Residents of two blocks of Valley Meadow Road in Encino now pull out of their gated compounds onto freshly poured pavement. Signs on a couple of blocks of Bellagio Road in Bel Air, where a home sold for $5 million in January, promise residents that they will soon enjoy similar improvements. Other newly repaved streets can be found in residential neighborhoods in Northridge, Granada Hills, and Mount Washington.
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