Los Angeles city property owners voted down a fee increase that sought to address a massive backlog of streetlight repairs.
The L.A. city clerk certified the results Wednesday: Just under 80% of the weighted votes cast rejected the idea.
The city sent ballots to owners of more than 580,000 public, commercial and private parcels in April. They were asked if they would pay more in a yearly assessment to boost the city’s streetlight budget, which has essentially been frozen since the 1990s…