Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Open Space

In San Diego: Officials Unveil Visionary Plan for Balboa Park, Media Concerned About Car Parking

By Damien Newton | Aug 31, 2010 | 5 Comments

A rendering of the plans for the Central Plaza of Balboa Park San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs unveiled a visionary $33 million plan to remove cars from the central square of San Diego’s historic Balboa Park. They hope to raise the funds to complete the plan by the park’s 100th […]

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People, Parklets, and Pavement to Parks (plus Mojo Bicycle Café)

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 18, 2010 | No Comments

In San Francisco, the Pavement to Parks program has launched an initiative that may someday alter the way many dense U.S. cities decide to treat the streets of their commercial strips. Taking the PARK(ing) Day concept to a more permanent, logical level, the Parklets Program has begun experimenting with trial spaces allowing businesses to convert […]

Park 101’s Freeway Lid for a Walkable Downtown Los Angeles

By Joe Linton | May 11, 2010 | 12 Comments

In the 1950’s, the 101 Freeway was built through downtown Los Angeles, cutting off the city’s historic plaza, Union Station and Chinatown from the rest of the downtown civic center. This week, Angelenos have a chance to learn more about an ambitious plan that could restore much of the fabric of downtown, improve walking and bicycling connections, […]

Design Your Own Park – Meeting on Olympic and Grand Linear Park – Tonight!

By Damien Newton | Jan 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

A map of the project area provided by Deborah Murphy Urban Design and Planning Yesterday the Los Angeles Times featured a story on what the Community Redevelopment Agency’s (CRA) plan to bring a linear park to the corner of Olympic and Grand. The Times does an excellent job explaining what the CRA is planning, but […]

City Council Agrees to Buy Elephant Hill from Developer and Preserve It As Open Space

By Damien Newton | Nov 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

Open space not condos for Elephant Hill. Image: L.A. Eastsider Yesterday, a twenty-five year battle between the Los Angeles City Council and the development group Monterey Hills Investors may have reached the end of the road. The Council agreed to pay a settlement of $9 million for the land known as Elephant Hill. Instead of […]

New Report: Feds Subsidizing Parking Six Times as Much as Transit

By Elana Schor | Sep 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

Both Images: Subsidyscope "Subsidy" is a word used quite often in transportation policy-making circles, whether by road acolytes who claim (falsely) that highways are not federally subsidized because of the gas tax or by transit boosters who lament Washington’s unceasing focus on paying for more local asphalt. But the subsidy debate often overlooks the government […]

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