The City Project www.cityprojectca.org is hiring!
Transit-to-Trails Program Coordinator

Job Description: The City Project’s Transit-to-Trails Program Coordinator will be responsible for helping coordinate the Transit-to-Trails program which takes urban youth and their families on mountain, beach and river day trips. Responsibilities include coordinating and promoting events, creating bilingual flyers, calling families, making presentations, and tracking [...]

Woody Smeck, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, writes:
Dear Friends:
This past week former U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-La) and
Howard H. Baker (R- TN) announced they are convening a year-long, blue
ribbon commission to recommend policies for the National Park System in the
next century. The system will turn 100 in 2016. The commission (National
Parks [...]

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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 [...]

Education
July 8, 2008
Pacific Palisades Chabad preschool denied lease extension
By Jane Ulman

Public testimony was presented last night’s emergency meeting convened by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to consider Chabad of Pacific Palisades’ appeal to temporarily extend its preschool lease at Temescal Gateway Park. Credit: Robert Garcia/The City Project
An eight-to-one vote by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy [...]

We support access for all to the Park through programs like Transit to Trails that provide diverse inner city youth and their families and friends with fun, educational, and healthy experiences. … Assosacion de Fraternidades Guatemaltecas (AFG) California Pan Ethnic Health Network Cinelandia Coalition Against Militarism in Schools (CAMS) Congreso de Hermandad Centro Americana Comite Pro Uno Maywood Comunidad Salvadoreña La Placita Cristian Avalos for Congress Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana Knights of Columbus La Placita Church Latinos for Peace Los Angeles Gardens and Urban Farms League of Latin-American United Citizens (LULAC) Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC) Palisadians for Peace School of the Americas Watch L.A.

The City Project urges the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) to address and remedy the inequity of park access in the Regional Transportation Implementation Plan (RTIP).
We commend SCAG for directly addressing the need to improve access to park space for all, particularly low income communities, in the 2008 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) Environmental Justice [...]

July 3, 2008
The City Project posted a blog item urging the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to not renew a private lease for Chabad of Pacific Palisades and to support public access at the park. City Project Blog

July 4, 2008
The saga over where a Chabad preschool in Pacific Palisades will be located has grown more complicated since we wrote about it in May. Note that it includes players all the way up to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Read the rest of this blog post on the L.A. Times Greenspace . . .

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“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 [...]