Steven Welliver
President, Los Angeles Central Area Planning CommissionRuns the Central Area Planning Commission’s meetings; we identified Welliver’s voice at 11 of its 14 meetings.
Presides over the Central Area Planning Commission
Talk time, and Welliver’s other bodies
- Central Area Planning Commission: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Development and land use took the largest share of Welliver’s speech with a checked topic: 99%
Every meeting where we identified Welliver’s voice
- Sep 8, 2026Central Area Planning Commission8.2 min0:27
- Aug 25, 2026Central Area Planning Commission21.2 min4:21
- Aug 11, 2026Central Area Planning Commission4.3 min35:47
- Jul 28, 2026Central Area Planning Commission12.1 min5:29
- Jun 9, 2026Central Area Planning Commission6.1 min34:19
- Apr 28, 2026Central Area Planning Commission10.0 min1:34:33
- Apr 14, 2026Central Area Planning Commission17.1 min14:01
- Mar 24, 2026Central Area Planning Commission1.2 min1:08:34
- Feb 24, 2026Central Area Planning Commission43.6 min58:21
- Jan 27, 2026Central Area Planning Commission27.1 min7:48
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- Dec 9, 2025Central Area Planning Commission1.2 min12:09
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 Welliver’s voice at 11 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Welliver was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Steven Welliver’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 Welliver 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 Welliver or of Los Angeles alone.
