Could Starbucks give Boyle Heights a needed jolt?   October 23,
2006|Steve Hymon | Times Staff Writer  Shortly after he was
elected to the Los Angeles City Council last November, Jose
Huizar moved from El Sereno back to Boyle Heights, the
neighborhood where he grew up.  Huizar began looking around at
his boyhood haunts and decided that it would be nice if the old
business district in Boyle Heights had a coffeehouse.  Part of
this was the urban planner in him -- coffeehouses generate
pedestrian traffic, which in turn can help bring people back
into a neighborhood.  And maybe his new job motivated his
interest. After all, Huizar's duties require him to sit through
three full council meetings each week and three committee
hearings.  In other words, if he were to arrive at City Hall
attached to an intravenous bag of coffee, it would be hard to
argue.  And that brings us to today's first question ...
Question: What's Huizar doing about his coffee interest?
Answer: Trying to persuade one of the major chains to p