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Marty Shelton

President, West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission

Runs the West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission’s meetings; we identified Shelton’s voice at all 12 transcribed.

12 of 12transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Presides over the West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission

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Next West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 4:30 pm · Agenda

Three clips, newest first

“I, I think that should be because obviously the community’s got concerns about that, so we shouldn’t ignore the noise issue, this soundproofing of the building, the points that were made here in terms of the buildings within 5 or 10 feet of next door and the residents that are there.”Marty SheltonCommissioner · West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026 · 2:27:37Play at 2:27:37
“I don’t recall seeing a fire hydrant along that stretch when you turn off of Benedict Canyon.”Marty SheltonCommissioner · West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission · Jun 17, 2026 · 2:21:44Play at 2:21:44
“City Attorney, I’m going back to understanding We have certain responsibilities as a commission to make a decision on this case, but given the situation, which is unique, we’re looking at making a decision on a property that the applicant doesn’t own.”Marty SheltonCommissioner · West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission · Nov 5, 2025 · 1:06:08Play at 1:06:08

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Shelton raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Talk time, and Shelton’s other bodies
What they talk about

Development and land use took the largest share of Shelton’s speech with a checked topic: 99%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission. 93 of 121 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Development and land use99%
Neighborhoods Shelton named

One place Shelton named in meetings

Lines where Shelton named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Los Angeles
  • Venice 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)). A dot says the place was named, not where Shelton was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Shelton’s voice

12, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Shelton’s first remark.

  1. Sep 2, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission22.7 minVideo
  2. Aug 19, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission8.9 min7:46
  3. Aug 5, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission10.4 min5:17
  4. Jul 1, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission8.4 min1:29:29
  5. Jun 17, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission20.7 minVideo
  6. May 20, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission3.1 min3:32
  7. May 6, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission5.5 min1:32
  8. Jan 21, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission4.8 min1:06:06
  9. Jan 7, 2026West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission0.6 min2:56
  10. Dec 17, 2025West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission6.6 min15:59
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  1. Nov 19, 2025West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission3.0 min20:43
  2. Nov 5, 2025West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission26.2 min0:18
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

We identified Shelton’s voice at 12 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Shelton was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Marty Shelton’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Shelton said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Shelton or of Los Angeles alone.