Resolution 3.01 - Omnibus Urban Greening Resolution.
This Resolution was Approved By the National Latino Congreso on September 8, 2006, and amended on July 19, 2008, to address keeping the Baldwin Hills Green and Clean for All for Generations to Come. The Amendments provide as follows:
WHEREAS: The Baldwin Hills in the historic heart of African-American Los [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
CONTACT: Eric Boyd (213) 745-6656 or Carlota Gutierrez (916) 651-4026
RIDLEY-THOMAS URGES BURKE TO EXTEND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR DRAFT EIR ON BALDWIN HILLS OIL FIELD CSD
Senator to lead citizens, state agency reps on tour of PXP Oil Field
LOS ANGELES – Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles/Culver City) sent a letter [...]

Back in the 1920s, developer Walter H. Leimert built a neighborhood on farm land where soy once grew. He donated a piece of land to the city, and in exchange, the city named it after him: Leimert Park.
Today you can stroll through Leimert Park Plaza — a small, triangular patch of greenery at the foot [...]

The City Council on July 16, 2008, approved a motion directing City staff to assess the project’s impacts on the local community, and to present their findings and comments to the Council for its consideration before public comments are due to the County Regional Planning Commission on August 19, 2008.
The motion introduced by Councilman Bernard [...]

KNX 1070 News Radio’s Michael Lindner conducts exclusive interviews on the Baldwin Hills oil field with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and others. Listen to the KNX broadcast.

Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Senator Applauds Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance for Development of Oil Field Community Standards
Monday, June 23, 2008
Senator cites CSD as “the Quintessence of Citizen Empowerment”

LOS ANGELES –Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Los Angeles/Culver City) today commended representatives of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance (GBHA) on the occasion of a GBHA press conference announcing the release of their Baldwin [...]

ASSEMBLYMEMBER KAREN BASS 47TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT For Immediate Release: June 23, 2008 Contact: Richard Stapler Phone: (916) 319-2047 Speaker Karen Bass Issues Statement on the Environmental Impact Report Regarding Oil Drilling in the Baldwin Hills Region LOS ANGELES —- Speaker Karen Bass issues the following statement regarding the release of the Environmental Impact Report for [...]

The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance draft Community Standards District will protect human health and the environment for the community and the Baldwin Hills Park, the largest urban park designed in the United States in over a century. Visit www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Professor Josh Sides describes the unique role of the Baldwin Hills in the history of African Americans in Los Angeles and across the nation:
By the late 1950s and early 1960s, blacks had pushed west and south of West Adams into Leimert Park and the exclusive area of Baldwin Hills, which quickly became the heart of [...]

Residents Ask County to Protect the Environment & Community Health
Moratorium on new oil drilling expires June 30th
LOS ANGELES, CA — Surrounded by the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Vista, Culver City, Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Ladera Heights, Inglewood, View Park and Windsor Hills, the two-square-mile Baldwin Hills Oil Field is the last large-scale undeveloped open space [...]