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Traci Park
Image of Traci Park
Los Angeles City Council District 11
Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

2

Predecessor
Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Education

High school

Apple Valley High School

Bachelor's

Johns Hopkins University, 1997

Law

Loyola Law School, 2001

Personal
Birthplace
Downey, Calif.
Profession
Attorney
Contact

Traci Park is a member of the Los Angeles City Council in California, representing District 11. She assumed office on December 12, 2022. Her current term ends on December 14, 2026.

Park ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 11 in California. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Park completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Traci Park was born in Downey, California. She earned a high school diploma from Apple Valley High School, a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and a law degree from Loyola Law School in 2001. Her career experience includes working as an attorney.

Park has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]

  • Association of Workplace Investigators
  • PARMA
  • IPMA-HR International
  • CalPELRA
  • CSDA
  • League of California Cities
  • Pacific Palisades Democratic Club

Elections

2022

See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)

General election

General election for Los Angeles City Council District 11

Traci Park defeated Erin Darling in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 11 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Traci Park
Traci Park (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
52.0
 
51,014
Image of Erin Darling
Erin Darling (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
48.0
 
47,056

Total votes: 98,070
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 11

The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 11 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Erin Darling
Erin Darling (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
34.7
 
22,939
Image of Traci Park
Traci Park (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
29.0
 
19,168
Greg Good (Nonpartisan)
 
9.9
 
6,565
Image of Allison Holdorff Polhill
Allison Holdorff Polhill (Nonpartisan)
 
8.8
 
5,805
Image of Mike Newhouse
Mike Newhouse (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
7.1
 
4,702
Jim Murez (Nonpartisan)
 
5.0
 
3,286
Mat Smith (Nonpartisan)
 
3.9
 
2,590
Midsanon Lloyd (Nonpartisan)
 
1.7
 
1,116

Total votes: 66,171
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Endorsements

To view Park's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection

Traci Park completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Park's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Traci Park is an pragmatic problem-solver who will work tirelessly for us. She knows how to create policies that keep neighborhoods safe and help communities thrive. Traci is running for city council to take on our most urgent challenges – crime, homelessness, sustainability, and affordability. District voters have an historic opportunity to bring about change in a city that has lost its way.

Traci is a Venice resident and municipal law attorney. She works on public policy issues, like police body cameras and use of force policies, closing the gender pay-gap, and investigating fraud, waste, and abuse complaints . During the COVID-19 pandemic, Traci helped cities and businesses navigate changing regulations to save jobs and lives.

Traci is running for CD11 to represent the entire district. She knows we need pragmatic solutions to the most pressing issues that the Westside faces. She’ll fight tirelessly to improve our quality of life on the Westside by ending encampments, restoring public safety, promoting economic recovery, improving infrastructure and fighting for our environment.
  • Get people off the streets into safe settings with the help they need.
  • Restore public safety.
  • Protect our open spaces and the environment.
Traci is passionate about environmental and infrastructure policy. We face a once in a generation opportunity to not only rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, but to implement sustainable solutions to solve our climate, transportation, conservation, employment, and livability needs on the Westside. Traci will do everything in her power to make sure CD-11 secures state and federal funds to implement these needed solutions to our beautiful district.

Traci understands the urgency of ending street camping and getting the unhoused into safe settings where they can get the help they need. She will focus on the production of affordable and permanent supportive housing, but and in the interim, she will fight to bring cost-effective, customized solutions online, including safe camping and parking with services on site, modular construction, adaptive reuse, and shared housing. She also recognizes that mental health and addiction recovery must be part of the solution.
Traci wholeheartedly agrees with the old adage that "all politics is local." Our City Council controls local laws, regulations, and ordinances, and each Council office has significant control over issues that affect the daily lives of residents and stakeholders, including land use and development, traffic mitigation and street improvements, public works and infrastructure projects, businesses, housing, and public safety. Traci will use her position on the City Council to ensure that our local communities have a real voice in the decisions that affect the Westside.
Traci believes that leaders listen. She will collaborate with communities and stakeholders to lead from common ground. Traci also believes in transparency and accountability. For too long, the City of Los Angeles has been plagued by corruption. She will work every day to restore trust between the residents of Council District 11 and the City to build the necessary partnerships that will be required to move our City forward.
Traci is a pragmatic problem-solver, not a political idealogue. She believes in community engagement and giving residents and stakeholders a voice and advocate at City Hall. Traci will roll her sleeves up to do the hard work of solving local problems by establishing needed trust and personal relationships with community leaders and stakeholders. Traci believes in putting people over politics!
Traci is fully committed to constituent services, responsiveness, improving the City's wasteful and inefficient systems, and investing in public safety to keep our communities safe, healthy, and thriving - for everyone.
Traci is fully committed to investing in infrastructure that aligns with our City's goals on climate and sustainability. From drought mitigation to housing and clean transportation, Traci will bring new capital improvement, public works, infrastructure, and development projects to Los Angeles that will help our City move forward to meet the needs of generations to come. She knows that we must be good stewards of the environmental resources Council District 11 offers - from our beautiful Santa Monica bay to our Ballona Wetlands to our Santa Monica mountains, Traci will always fight to protect our green, open, and public recreation resources.
Traci got her first job waiting tables when she was just 16 years old. She then worked two jobs throughout college and law school, while also borrowing heavily to pay for her education. Traci understands the value of hard work and the challenges that working families in Los Angeles face in light of the rising cost of living. She will fight for educational and economic opportunities for all Angelenos to ensure that every person and family can continue to call Los Angeles home. She will invest in affordable and workforce housing across the City and work closely with our local unions and business organizations to focus on job training and workforce development.
Traci brings years of experience advising cities and other local governments on policy development and legal compliance. As a municipal attorney, she works every day with City leadership - including elected officials, department heads, police and fire, and other employee groups - to solve problems that effect communities and working people. She brings years of experience and best practices to this position on the LA City Council, where she will serve as a true advocate for the changes people on the Westside want to see.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 26, 2022

Political offices
Preceded by
Mike Bonin
Los Angeles City Council District 11
2022-Present
Succeeded by
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