Editorial Downtown News June 30, 2008
Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity
Stakeholders in City West and adjacent communities received dispiriting news last week, when city and Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced that the swimming pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex once again will be off-limits to the general public this year. This is [...]

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 [...]

“It is the most important work of American art of the 19th century,” Sara Cedar Miller said.
She was referring to Central Park, not to the 3-foot by-8-foot pen-and-ink map over her shoulder. But the two are inseparable. The enormous map depicts “Greensward,” the plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux that won the park-design [...]

Spencer Weiner L.A. Times.
In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. Miguel Contreras is in the most park-poor assembly district in the state of California — a community where 65% of the population within three miles [...]

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The voices of state park supporters across the state [...]

Click on the image to see all sizes of the map and detailed charts analyzing proposed park closures.
The Governor has proposed closing 48 out of 278 priceless State Parks to save money. The proposal would close one out of every six state parks, to save just $9 million.
Four counties with the greatest green access need [...]

View images of the 28 acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village — which could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles.
Central Service Yard Opportunity Site
Reclaiming Griffith Park’s Lost Acreage for Public Enjoyment
By Jeff Gardener and Bernadette Soter,
Members Griffith Park Master Plan Working [...]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has documented that obesity among school children in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD) has increased from 20.2% in 1999 to 26.1%in 2006, going from 1 in 5 children being obese to over 1 in 4. The percentage of overweight school children has generally been increasing [...]