LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said Monday as part of his mayoral campaign that the Los Angeles City Council should be doubled in size, with each council member receiving half of their $223,829 salary. “By cutting council districts in half, council members will be much closer to the communities they serve and know those communities more intimately. Residents will compete less for their elected representative’s time,” Feuer said in an opinion piece on the online publishing platform Medium. “This proposal will improve the quality of our lives by empowering neighborhoods and giving them council members who respond rapidly to their concerns over everything from homelessness to public safety to traffic gridlock. It would be much harder for members to evade accountability to the residents they serve.” Feuer added that having smaller districts could create a more diverse city council, as neighborhoods like Koreatown could elect their own representative. …