Sidewalk Crisis
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED
Sidewalk Crisis:
The city wants to shift the burden of repairing and maintaining sidewalks to homeowners and businesses!After years of neglect and not meeting their responsibility of maintaining our sidewalks and curbs, the city council is planning to pass-the-buck of sidewalk repair and maintenance to homeowners and businesses. Not only do they want us to pay for it, they want to charge us an average $450 fee for permits!
This represents a huge impact on our community!
- Immediate undue cost to businesses and homeowners
- Increased liability
- Potential decrease in property value
- Increased annual cost of maintenance
- Decrease in the quality of life as some owners will opt out of having trees in their parkways
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Document the condition of your sidewalk IMMEDIATELY.
Take a picture of your sidewalk with your iPhone, smartphone or digital camera with a placard indicating your address and send it to: JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
It’s important to INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS WITHIN THE PICTURE OR IT WILL NOT BE INCLUDED in the filing with the city council.
PLEASE SEND YOUR PICTURE WITH ADDRESS BEFORE NOVEMBER 20TH!!
This action does not guarantee that we will prevail but it will make our voices heard and show our outrage in large numbers.
FOLLOW-UP:
A Letter of Opposition, along with the images of sidewalks, will be submitted to the appropriate committee of the L.A. City Council and made part of the public record at http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/ under file number 05-1853. You may also read the draft language of the ordinance at the same location.
Wilshire Highlands Kicks Treecare into High Gear!
In a renewed effort to build community and 'green up' the neighborhood, Wilshire Highlands Neighborhood Association is mounting a 6 month tree care and parkway cleanup campaign. The program will start with caring for the existing trees in need of mulching, tree well clearing, watering and some low level pruning. To date over 50 trees have been attended to and there will be another event on October 6th. New tree plantings will take place in February of 2011 at up to 30 locations with the tree choices of jacaranda, golden crown, london box and magnolia.
And that's not all! The parkways at the end of Orange Drive, Mansfield and Sycamore are also slated for cleanup. As recent as last weekend, weeds and debris were cleared from the parkways on Orange Drive and Mansfield and fresh mulch was added. Drive by the GAM Building (the steel corrugated building with red trim on the north side of Pico) and check out the beautiful work.
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| Weeds, trash and hidden surprises await the volunteers! | Cleaned up and ready for a weed barrier and some mulch on Sept. 19th! |
The good work of the Wilshire Highlands Neighborhood Association doesn't stop there! They cleaned the parkway next to Roscoes, in the Pico Park/Pico Del Mar neighborhood, and trucked a quarter ton of mulch to the site by hand! We owe many thanks to the Wilshire Highlands NA for organizing this program and to the many volunteers who participated. It looks awesome!
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Free Trees!
The LA Conservation Corps will be giving away shade trees to all people who are interested and live in the City of Los Angeles!!
Did you know that trees have a great variety of benefits?
These are some facts about trees:
- They can help increase your property’s value up to 10%
- They can help reduce energy cost by up to 20% if planted strategically
- They help lessen air pollution
- They help lower the rate of global warming
- They help decrease storm water runoff that causes flooding and pollution during the rainy season
We will be stationed at our North East L.A. Site
Location: 1400 N. Spring St. (Corner of Ann St.)
Date: November 13, 2010
Time: 9:00-2:00 pm
Come by our Center and take a beautiful tree home!
For more information contact:
Aracely Farias
(323) 224-2550 ext 509
Locals Receive Prop 84 Grant for Park
Rings of Saturn Receive Prop 84 Grant to Kick Off Community School Park Project!
Saturn Elementary School Blazes Trail for New Community School Park Concept
Los Angeles –Rings of Saturn, Inc., a non-profit corporation formed by community members for the benefit ofSaturn Elementary School, will be the beneficiary of a $458,998.00 award from theState’s Strategic Growth Council as part of the Urban Greening Program, utilizing Prop 84 funding. The award will be used for the construction of a Community School Park (CSP), an innovative concept that transforms asphalt school campuses into park-like settings for use by schools as well as members of the community after school hours. The award represents approximately 50% of the projected budget and is expected to be matched by Measure Q funding through Los Angeles County as part of a joint use relationship between the Rings of Saturn, L..A. Unified School District and Beyond The Bell. The project will be managed by the Rings of Saturn in collaboration with theLos Angeles Conservation Corps, who will play a vital role in guiding the non-profit through the process.