Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parklets

Downtown L.A. Celebrates New Parklet On Hope Street

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2016 | 4 Comments

People Street meets Hope Street. Just over a hundred people attended the grand opening of Los Angeles’ newest parklet, located on Hope Street just below 11th Street in the downtown L.A. neighborhood of South Park. In case you are not familiar with the term, a parklet is a mini-park that replaces a parking space or […]

Main Street in Santa Monica Poised to Get 2 Parklets

By Jason Islas | Nov 23, 2015 | No Comments

Update: The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved three locations for the city’s pilot parklet program. The three locations include the two recommended by staff and a third at Main and Hill in front of Finn McCool’s. The Santa Monica City Council next Tuesday will consider giving the go-ahead to the beachside city’s first two […]

Temporary Parklets Occupy Parking Spaces During Park(ing) Day L.A. 2015

By Joe Linton | Sep 21, 2015 | 1 Comment

In spaces around the world, Park(ing) Day happens annually on the third Friday of September. Groups take over parking spaces, feed the meter, and create and occupy temporary parklets. It all draws attention to the potential for small urban spaces, and the high opportunity cost for turning over so much urban land to storing private […]

Guide To Park(ing) Day 2015 Parklet Sites – Plus Metro Parking Update

By Joe Linton | Sep 17, 2015 | 14 Comments

International Park(ing) Day is not the massively humongous event it has been in past years in L.A. Nonetheless, there are still parks popping up in mid- and downtown. Below is a list of some Southern California park(s) to check out. (updated with additional sites! Some additional locations at parkingday.org) In Mid-City L.A., the Mid City West […]

Eyes on the Street: Parklets Arrive In East L.A.

By Joe Linton | Apr 16, 2015 | No Comments

Many cities are finding that sometimes, places where people park are just a little more desirable than places where cars park. Parklets began in San Francisco. The first Southern California parklets are in Long Beach. They’ve since spread to the city of Los Angeles, the city of Huntington Park, and now unincorporated East Los Angeles. The […]

Eyes on the Street: Huntington Park Building Its Fourth Parklet!

By Joe Linton | Feb 17, 2015 | 3 Comments

Friend of the blog Ryan Johnson visited the Southeast L.A. County city of Huntington Park and spotted crews building that city’s fourth parklet! SBLA reviewed Huntington Parks first parklet last summer. Unless I am mistaken, if Huntington Park (population 60,000) can open this parklet before Los Angeles (population 4,000,000) repairs and re-opens its damaged parklet […]

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