Councilmember Janice Hahn discusses The City Project’s Policy Report to pinpoint where to invest in parks and recreation in each community, and the need for reforming park funding including Quiimby fees. “Thank you to Robert García of The City Project for giving us the presentation and really giving us a good picture of where [...]

The City Project’s Executive Director and Counsel Robert García presented the Policy Report Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities: Mapping Green Access and Equity for the Los Angeles Region to the full Los Angeles City Council on March 18, 2008. Council members respond in a conversation about a fair system of park finance and fees; regional [...]

The City Project’s Executive Director and Counsel Robert Garcia presents the Policy Report Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities: Mapping Green Access and Equity for the Los Angeles Region before the full Los Angeles City Council on March 18, 2008. Council members respond in a conversation about a fair system of park finance and fees; regional [...]

There are unfair disparities in access to parks, schools, and pools by City Council District in Los Angeles.

District 12 (Smith) in the West San Fernando Valley has 15.86 net acres of urban parks per thousand residents, compared to .35 in District 13 (Garcetti) in Central Los Angeles and District 10 (Wesson) in South Los Angeles.

There [...]

There are unfair disparities in access to parks, schools, and pools by City Council District in Los Angeles.

For example, there are 57.68 total acres of parks per thousand residents in District 11 (Rosendahl) in West Los Angeles, compared to .43 acres in District 10 (Wesson) in inner city South Los Angeles.

District 11 (Rosendahl) in West [...]

View Maps and Analyses Parks, Schools and Pools by City Council District
The City Project’s Executive Director and Counsel Robert Garcia will testify before the Los Angeles City Council on March 18, 2008, at 10:00 am at City Hall in Room 340 on healthy parks, schools, and communities. Councilmembers Tom LaBonge and Janice Hahn [...]

January 30, 2008
New York Times EDITORIAL
Restoring Civil Rights
In recent decades, and to much public acclaim, Congress passed a series of landmark laws designed to ensure equal rights for all Americans. Lately, and without much notice, the Supreme Court has been gutting them.
Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, has introduced a pair of bills designed to [...]

Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities
The City Project is proud to release our new Policy Report Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities: Mapping Green Access and Equity for the Los Angeles Region. The Report is a guide for creating healthy, livable communities for all. The Report provides a positive vision to:
*Revitalize the Los Angeles and San Gabriel [...]

Improving the LA River Revitalization Master Plan

Click map to enlarge.

There is much to be praised in the draft River Plan, but the plan must take a balanced approach with multiuse projects for parks, schools, ball fields, flood control, housing, and jobs, that serves the diverse needs of Los Angeles. For example, out of over 80 [...]

Los Angeles Regional Workshop on Proposition 84
The Clean Water, Parks & Coastal Protection Bond of 2006

Thursday October 12th
9:30 am - 12:00 noon
The Los Angeles River Center and Gardens
570 West Ave 26, Los Angeles 90065
Please join The Nature Conservancy, The California State Parks Foundation and a growing coalition of environmental stakeholders for an informational workshop on [...]