Barri Worth Girvan
Candidate for City Council Member, Los Angeles, District 3 · Valley Community Advocate
Barri Worth Girvan was born and raised in the West San Fernando Valley and has more than 20 years of experience in public service. She previously held non-elected staff roles with the California State Senate and the Los Angeles mayor's office. She later served as director of community affairs for Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, leading community outreach and engagement. She has also worked with nonprofit and community organizations including the West Valley YMCA, Planned Parenthood, and New Directions for Youth, Inc.
Positions in brief
Girvan's platform centers on speeding up housing construction while preserving local input, a fully funded police department paired with crisis-response units, wildfire safety review of new development, and more transparent city government.
Girvan says she wants to streamline the permitting process to speed up housing construction while pushing back on state housing mandates she says override local control; she says she would use her relationships with sitting state legislators to argue that top-down mandates are not working for the Valley. On homelessness, she supports moving people from encampments into shelter and permanent housing, including using the city's authority to clear encampments from sensitive areas while connecting people to county mental health and public health services. On a proposed development on the Woodland Hills Country Club golf course, she has said she cannot support any project in the community without a real wildfire-prevention plan. She supports full funding for the police department along with crisis-response units and neighborhood safety programs. She supports Measure HLA and says she would push city departments to actually implement it to deliver road and pedestrian-safety improvements. She has called ICE raids unconscionable and said she would work to protect immigrant families from being separated. She also says city government needs to become more transparent and efficient in how it delivers basic services to residents.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Supports a fully funded police department paired with crisis-response units and neighborhood safety programs.
“Ensuring safe, clean neighborhoods: Focusing on public safety & housing”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Wants to pair public safety efforts with action on housing as one linked priority.
“Ensuring safe, clean neighborhoods: Focusing on public safety & housing”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Wants to streamline permitting to speed up housing construction while preserving local input over development.
“streamline the permitting process to speed housing construction”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports moving people from encampments into shelter and permanent housing, using encampment removal authority in sensitive areas alongside county services.
“from encampments to shelter and permanent housing”
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Says she cannot support new development near fire-prone areas without a real wildfire-prevention plan.
“Until I see a fire prevention plan, I cannot support any project in our community that doesn't have a plan for fire prevention.”
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Supports workforce development programs and job creation to strengthen the local economy.
“Enhancing the economic vitality of our region: Focusing on workforce development and support job creation”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Wants city government to be more transparent and efficient in delivering basic services.
“Making government work better for the people it represents: Humanizing core service delivery with transparency and efficiency”
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Supports Measure HLA and wants city departments to actually implement it to improve road and pedestrian safety.
Source → - Immigration & Border
Calls ICE raids unconscionable and wants to protect immigrant families from being separated.
“unconscionable”
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