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 [...]

The California Coastal Commission has concluded that the “No Camping” signs posted at the Malibu city limits are “are inconsistent with the City’s ordinances, LCP [local coastal plan], and the Coastal Act.” The staff letter to Malibu suggests changing the signs to avoid further confusion, defuse controversy, and bring the signs into compliance with [...]

Acjachemen tribal member Louis Robles, Jr., posted the sign featured in the New York Times, and testified emotionally when the Coastal Commission voted 8-2 against the toll road that would devastate the sacred site of Panhe and San Onofre State Beach.

Axel Koester for The New York Times
NEWS ANALYSIS
In California, Coastal Commission Wields Vast Power
By JENNIFER [...]

Story by Jeesoo Park
Preservation Online February 20, 2008
A spacious, 3,000-acre state park that runs along the Pacific Ocean, San Diego’s San Onofre State Beach is a popular vacation spot for the 2.4 million who visit each year. It’s also the sacred site of Panhe, an ancient village of the native Acjachemen people who still reside [...]

“Did the State of California enact laws that prohibited California Indians from practicing their religion, speaking their languages or practicing traditional ceremonies and customs? Senator John L. Burton requested that the California Research Bureau research this question.”
This report focuses on early California laws and policies that significantly impacted the California Indians’ way of life. [...]

Click on the image to go to the on line book by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the National Park Service.
“This report is not about the prehistory of California Indians, nor is it the story of any one Indian group. Rather, it is a commentary on those events, procedures, laws, and [...]

View eleven short YouTube videos of the hearing where the California Coastal Commission voted 8-2 against the proposed toll road through the park on February 6, 2008. The road would devastate the Native American sacred site of Panhe and San Onofre State Beach.
Commissioner Mary Shallenberger votes against the toll road because the impacts on [...]