UNEARTH ABANDONED GREEN SPACE Are you outraged by the juxtaposition of a shortage of parks and an over-abundance of vacant land in this city? If you are a sentient human, you probably are. So are Community Health Councils and the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, two of several partner organizations that recently won an LA2050 grant for their L.A. Open Acres proposal to catalog parcels of abandoned and under-utilized land in L.A. They are also working on a second open space project — Transforming Inner-City Lost Lots — which will (hopefully) help transform some of the cataloged lots into actual usable green space for communities. Through these two efforts, and with partners C-Lab and 596 Acres, they hope to “unlock the potential for new community-serving green space in neighborhoods impacted by vacant, blighted, and otherwise abandoned land.” They are in the early stages of the process and will be holding a vacant lot summit at Mercado La Paloma next Tuesday, July 16th, from 6:15 to 8 p.m. to gather feedback and ideas from community stakeholders. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP to sondrina(at)chc-inc.org to reserve a spot. Dinner and refreshments will be provided.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:56:01 +0000
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