Kristopher Fortin

It's July, hot, and the perfect weather for a bike/train/bus ride or walk to Los Angeles Streetsblog's Eastside Tour. It's a series of events Streetsblog is putting together this summer, and early fall, and all taking place east of the L.A. river.

A motion to establish an Environment and Transportation Committee for the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council has been postponed again. Since it was introduced in March, the motion has been tabled twice before. In April, action on the motion was omitted from the meeting minutes, and in May it was tabled again. Last week, the board had less than 10 minutes before the meeting finished, so there was not even a discussion on why the motion was postponed. According to past neighborhood council meeting minutes and agendas, the motion to start the committee has been one of the last items that is touched on in the meetings.

There’s been graduations, rise in car thefts, and new research that has come out recently about Boyle Heights. So let’s get to it.

Proyecto Pastoral organized the Summer Programs Fair at Pico Gardens to bring awareness to residents about the programs both adults and youth can participate at either low costs or for free this summer. Eastside Streetsblog picked up some information that was provided at the fair and is including it in the post bellow:

Boyle Heights will get some new furniture this Saturday, as city and neighborhood groups gather to inaugurate the installation of public living rooms at the corner of Fickett and Boulder Streets. Installation of the public living rooms, which are pieces of furniture left in the public for people to use, is part of the campaign to demonstrate living streets principals in Boyle Heights by Living Streets L.A.

Only a few days removed from protestors marching up Soto Street to demonstrate against a proposed CVS and shopping center development, people milled around a new Walgreens just two blocks from the protest.

The Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council approved a motion to craft a policy geared towards limiting high-density development projects. The Planning and Land Use Committee’s recommended motion aims to preserve the “existing character of the community,” by demanding traffic data, allotting parking space for automobiles and limiting high density developments.

Opening June 4th: Wallgreens on Cesar Chavez Avenue

After 30 years, and five different councilmembers, community members from Boyle Heights finally got  a traffic light at the heavily congested intersection of Cesar Chavez Avenue and Fresno Street. Councilman Jose Huizar, District 14, and local community members gathered Saturday morning to turn on the traffic light, and recall the work that it took to get it at the intersection.