The grand opening of the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield on September 23, 2006. The site couuld have been warehouses. Instead, it’s a park. Activists and advocates galvanized community support to create the state park and stop 32 acres of warehouses. The Los Angeles Times called the victory “a heroic [...]

The Baldwin Hills Park alongside active oil fields in the historic heart of African-American Los Angeles will be a two-square mile park, the nation’s largest natural urban park in over 100 years. The Park will provide the diverse and park-poor region with much needed green space for recreation and health, conservation, education, and economic vitality.
The [...]

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 [...]

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 20, 2008
In downtown Los Angeles on Saturday there were sights and smells and sounds of a milestone event the concrete urban core had not hosted in more than a century.
Fresh bark. Tinkling water cascading down a rocky slope. California sycamores and coast live oaks, an expansive meadow [...]

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Neighborhood children celebrated Earth Day by planting trees on April 19, 2008.
The new Vista Hermosa Nature Park adjoining the new Edward R. Roybal High School in Pico Union, one of the most park-starved communities in California, opened on July 19, 2008! This is a best practice example of the joint use of parks and schools.
Vista [...]

Jesus Sanchez is a great journalist and he is one of my heroes. It is a tragedy that he is leaving the L.A. Times.
We helped spearhead the successful effort to create what is now the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield. Mr. Sanchez covered that story in an excellent front page article above [...]

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 [...]

City, LAUSD Reach Deal On Access to Facility at High School
by Ryan Vaillancourt
July 14, 2008
Community activists who have been calling on city and school district officials to open the Olympic-sized pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex to the public during the summer got their wish last Monday.
With the July sun beating down and the [...]

Park on Long-Troubled Belmont Learning Center Site to Open This Week
by Anna Scott
July 14, 2008
This week, City West will get a lot greener with the debut of a 10-acre park. If some people thought it might never arrive, that’s understandable: It is opening on a notorious site where construction first began a decade ago.
Still, it [...]