Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Bernard Parks

South L.A. to Become SOLA? Now You’re Just Messing With Us, Right?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 22, 2015 | 3 Comments

I nearly spit my coffee out all over my keyboard yesterday when I read that 8th District Councilmember Bernard Parks wanted to rename South Central, already “upgraded” to “South L.A.” in 2003, to “SOLA.” “They see these other communities reinvigorated by these contemporary names,” Parks told the L.A. Times, “And they wonder, at times, why […]

LA/2B Stops at City Hall on Way to Public Workshops This Weekend

By Damien Newton | Feb 23, 2012 | 1 Comment

This Saturday marks the first two of four of the introductory public meetings for the City of Los Angeles Mobility plan, set to be completed in 2014. Maybe they learned something from the disastrous early outreach meetings for the Bike Plan in 2008, because this time enthusiasm is higher for the plan. Much of that […]

How Can L.A. Fix Its Sidewalks?

By Damien Newton | Oct 28, 2011 | 12 Comments

Councliman Bernard Parks has been making news recently for his proposal to hand over the maintenance costs, and liability issues, for the city’s crumbling sidewalks to the people owning the house adjacent to the sidewalk. Simply, people that own a house are responsible for the repair of the sidewalk in front of their house. If […]