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Eyes on the Street: Eagle Rock Music Festival
In which I plug the awesome street/music festival that I only attended for the first time two days ago, despite being fairly well attuned to the LA music scene...
October 4, 2010
MyFigueroa Project Opens House This Weekend, Not Shy About Using the Internet
What would you do if you had $20 million dollars and were tasked with turning three and a half miles of one of Los Angeles' most iconic streets into the kind of street that encourages people to be outside? That's the question the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is asking at two workshops on Saturday, October 2, and next Tuesday, October 5, about Figueroa Street from the southwest corner of Exposition Park, past USC, and Staples Center in to Downtown Los Angeles. Flush with $20 million in state "Proposition C" funds, the CRA is asking residents and business owners "what's your Figueroa" and what do you want Figueroa to look like in the future.
September 28, 2010
Local Governments Lining Up Behind Dodd’s Livability Legislation
With financial reform nearly complete, the Senate
Banking Committee turned its attention today to one of Senator Chris
Dodd's (D-CT) next priorities, the Livable Communities Act. Local
government came out strong for the initiative to promote sustainable
and integrated regional planning, with representatives of the nation's
cities, towns, counties, and regional planning organizations testifying
in favor. Among committee members, concerns persisted about whether the bill would disadvantage rural areas.
June 10, 2010
City Planning’s Opportunity to Re-make Los Angeles’ Streets
Los Angeles' Department of City Planning (DCP) is working on a study
that has the potential to change the way that the city does
streets. DCP's "Street Classification and Benchmarking Study" is lead
by city planners Claire Bowin and Jane Choi and their consultant,
Fehr and Peers' Jeremy Klop. The $55,000 study is funded by the
Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG.) There's
apparently no information on the study online yet, though briefings on
it were presented at the recent StreetSummit and to the Green L.A. Transportation Work Group. Dorothy Le reported on the GLATWG briefing at the Bike Coalition's blog.
May 7, 2010
CicLAvia Has 12 “Sadik-Khan” Type Projects for L.A. What Are Yours?
Over at CicLAvia's blog, Joe Linton, who is no stranger to Streetsblog readers, has an interesting article featuring a dozen "Sadik-Khan" like projects that could, and should, be done by the city of Los Angeles before next year's Street Summit. After her inspiring perfomance at this year's Summit, NYCDOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan promised to come back next year and see how we're doing. To, to the city of L.A. I say, "Tick-tock city! That's only ten more months!"
May 7, 2010
Job Posting: Boyle Heights Living Streets Coordinator
Talk about having an immediate impact. Thanks to a grant from the L.A. County Department of Public Health, Green L.A.is looking for a "Living Streets Coordinator" for Boyle Heights. You can read the full job description here, but here's a taste of what the Coordinator will do:
April 26, 2010
In Burbank, a Road Diet Appears on Verdugo Avenue
Although they aren't advertising it as such, the City of Burbank recently put Verdugo Avenue on a diet, a road diet that is. And amazingly, the world didn't end.
March 29, 2010
Dodd Vows to Pass Livability Bill Amid Skepticism From Rural Senators
Even as the Obama administration ramps up its work on a sustainability initiative that treats
transportation, housing, and energy efficiency as interconnected
aspects of development policy, the effort remains without an official
congressional authorization -- a situation that Senate Banking
Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) vowed to fix yesterday.
March 9, 2010
Here’s Your Chance to Support Complete Streets in State Planning Guidelines
The California Transportation Commission (CTC), is the state body charged with creating guidelines for agencies such as the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and other regional planning bodies. This year, the CTC's guidelines are of greater interest to Livable Streets advocates because the language contains language that promotes Complete Streets as part of agencies' requirement to comply with S.B. 375, the recently passed anti-sprawl bill.
December 1, 2009