Month: February 2008

The Downtown Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles — commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues.

Granada Hills-Knollwood and Sylmar Community Plan Meetings The City of Los Angeles will prepare Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) for the proposed Granada Hills-Knollwood and Sylmar Community Plans which are two of the 35 Community Plans which comprise the Land Use Element of the General Plan, one of the seven state-mandated elements of the General Plan that also include noise, transportation, conservation and others. The Community Plans are intended to promote an arrangement of land uses, streets, and services in the Community Plan areas to encourage economic vitality; social and physical well-being; and general health, safety, welfare and convenience of the people who live and work in the community. The City will also hold a public scoping meetings for the same purpose of soliciting oral and written comments as to the appropriate scope and content of the EIRs.

Granada Hills-Knollwood and Sylmar Community Plan Meetings The City of Los Angeles will prepare Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) for the proposed Granada Hills-Knollwood and Sylmar Community Plans which are two of the 35 Community Plans which comprise the Land Use Element of the General Plan, one of the seven state-mandated elements of the General Plan that also include noise, transportation, conservation and others. The Community Plans are intended to promote an arrangement of land uses, streets, and services in the Community Plan areas to encourage economic vitality; social and physical well-being; and general health, safety, welfare and convenience of the people who live and work in the community. The City will also hold a public scoping meetings for the same purpose of soliciting oral and written comments as to the appropriate scope and content of the EIRs. 

Led by Resident Storytellers, Steve Goldstein and Joe Walker, this tour explores one of Los Angeles' oldest cemeteries. Built in 1877, Evergreen existing cemetery in the city of Los Angeles; it is one of the city's largest cemeteries, with 300,000 gravesites. Cost: FREE but reservations are required by calling 213-229-8890

Selection Community Meeting for Central Region Elementary School #20. At this meeting, we will review criteria used to select potential sites and review the sites suggested by the community and LAUSD. We will also present and discuss the most suitable site(s) for this new school project . Please, please come to the meeting at Virgil Middle School at First and Vermont! Please take a moment to sign our electronic petition to save the LAEV neighborhood at on White House Place, and spread it far and wide:http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/la-eco-village.

634 S. Spring St, 1st floor conference room, 90014.Annual meeting for LACBC members. Meet the staff, board and other members! Hear from Board candidates in our upcoming election, as well as LACBC updates from our board and staff.

Santa Monica Also Uses Ped. Decoys

In yesterday's Times, Steve Hymon discusses the changing attitude at LADOT about how best to move people throughout the city. The headline, "L.A. officials do a 180 in traffic planning" suggests that we were about to read some radical stuff. Maybe he was going to discuss Gordon Price's argument that LA needs to be more like Vancouver and plan on how to design the roads to best move people, not cars . Maybe he was going to discuss charging people to use our highways through a toll or HOT Lane system and redirect that money towards transit. Instead, this is what we was meant by a "180 in traffic planning":