Category Archive: 'Free the Beach!'
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
June 29, 2009 UPDATED July 2, 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg
Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass
Assembly Minority Leader Sam Blakeslee
State Capitol Sacramento, CA
re: Legal Requirements to Keep State Parks Open for All
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, Senate President Steinberg, Senate Minority Leader Hollingsworth, Speaker Bass, and Assembly Minority Leader Blakeslee:
We demand that [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus Infrastructure Justice, Free the Beach!, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, L.A. River, The City Project, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
READ THE UPDATED JULY 2, 2009 LETTER BY CLICKING HERE
June 29, 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg
Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass
Assembly Minority Leader Sam Blakeslee
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA
re: Legal Requirements to Keep State Parks Open for All
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, Senate President Steinberg, Senate Minority Leader Hollingsworth, Speaker Bass, and Assembly Minority [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus Infrastructure Justice, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, L.A. River, The City Project, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
City to file lawsuit against Coastal Commission
Malibu Times
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:20 PM PDT
Angered by the commission’s indifference to residents’ and city officials pleas to consider the risks of fire and other hazards, and approve a ban on overnight camping within city limits, the council authorizes the city attorney to file suit against the commission.
By [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
June 11, 2009 UPDATED
President Barack Obama The White House
Senator Barbara Boxer Senator Dianne Feinstein The Capitol
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol
Re: Support the National Park Service Saving California State Parks for All
Dear President Obama, Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein, and Governor Schwarzenegger:
We respectfully submit that the National Park Service should take over and manage the California State Park [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus Infrastructure Justice, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Native American Sites, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
• SMMC Adds Malibu Bluffs Parkland to Potential Campsites •
The California Coastal Commission followed staff recommendations and denied the proposed Local Coastal Program Amendment submitted by the City of Malibu that included a prohibition on overnight camping on public parkland within its borders.
After almost 10 hours of reports and testimony at the panel’s meeting in [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Everyday Heroes, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Native American Sites, Olmsted Vision, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
The City Project has submitted the memorandum below to the California Coastal Commission to support the Malibu park access public works plan to maximize public access to the coastal zone while ensuring the fair treatment of people of all races, cultures, and incomes.
The major justifications for maximizing public access to the coastal zone are the [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Broad Beach at or near 31316 Broad Beach Road, looking south/east, June 11, 2005 (#275).
In June 2005, property owners in Broad Beach in Malibu allegedly took the utterly astonishing step of using bulldozers to remove the sand from the public beach. The bulldozing damaged natural resources along the beach and demonstrated yet another attempt [...]
Posted in Free the Beach!, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Trestles Wetlands Natural Preserve
The United States Department of Commerce on December 18, 2008, upheld the California Coastal Commission decision to stop the toll road through the sacred Acjachemen site of Panhe and San Onofore State Beach.
With 2.7 million visitors a year, San Onofre is the fifth-most popular destination in the state’s 278-park system.
Panhe is a [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Native American Sites
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: February 23, 2009
The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.
Well
Should schools make recess and outdoor time [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Free the Beach!, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Olmsted Vision, Schools and Communities, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Bernard Bruce So-Cal News on YouTube
Bruce’s Beach was one of the few beaches in Southern California in the early 1900s that was not off-limits to African Americans. The City of Manhattan Beach condemned Bruce’s Beach and forced out the black community in the 1920’s and 30’s. The City Project has worked with Bernard Bruce, [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Everyday Heroes, Free the Beach!, Heritage Parkscape, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Urban Parks Movement
