18.1% of children are obese in City Council District 5 (Weiss) in West Los Angeles, the lowest level in the City of Los Angeles. 29.3% of children are obese in City Council District 8 (Parks) from South Los Angeles to the Baldwin Hills, the highest level in the City. Even the lowest level [...]

29.3% of children are obese in City Council District 8 (Parks) from South Los Angeles to the Baldwin Hills, the highest level in the City of Los Angeles . Even the lowest level of 18.3% is unacceptably high in City Council District 5 (Weiss) in West Los Angeles. The child obesity level is [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

A recent audit of the program that taps developers to pay for creating neighborhood parks does not provide reassurance that Downtown will have new grass, flowers and benches anytime soon, even though there is serious money to pay for them. There is even less chance that the city Department of Recreation and Parks, which runs [...]