The County of Los Angeles is seeking public comment on the LA River Master Plan 2020. Submissions close on Thursday May 13, 2021. This is a different process to comments on the Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR). Those comments are due on the same day, but they’re a separate thing. You can read more here. Your comments […]
The County of Los Angeles is seeking public comment on the Program Environmental Impact Report of the County LA River Master Plan (PEIR). Submissions close on Thursday May 13, 2021. This is a different process to comments on the Master Plan itself. Those comments are due on the same day, but they’re a separate thing. […]
The City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering is seeking public comment on the Taylor Yard G2 River Park Project Final Draft Implementation Feasibility Report (IFR). Submissions close on Friday April 30, 2021. Your comments need to be sent to:Project Team, Taylor Yard G2 River Park Projecttaylor.yardG2@lacity.org Useful links:The report and appendices, plus various presentations […]
In the latest installment of a disheartening game I’m calling “are-you-for-real-City-of-Long-Beach?!” all but 20 constituents have been locked out of speaking at the City Council appeal hearing this evening about 3701 Pacific Place. You can write an email and make an ecomment instead, which is what I’ve done. Hope you’ll do the same. Email addresses:City […]
The City of Long Beach has commenced the CEQA process for a 20 acre parcel of land at 712 Baker Street. It should be a park, but it’s currently on its way to being a 227-building gated residential development. There will be several opportunities for public comment, the first closes on Monday April 12, 2021 […]
The City of Long Beach is poised to determine the future of the Lower Los Angeles River with two utterly inappropriate development proposals currently shimmying their way through what appears to be a very careless approval process. If you have any interest in the river, the watershed, human life, or environmental justice, now is the […]
I’m still close enough to my parked car to press the keypad to double-check it is locked, and already history is inscribed and readable in the landscape. Of course, it isn’t readable in the open-a-book-in-your-native-tongue-and-effortlessly-read sense of the word. Rather, it is readable in the way that makes history such a richly engaging discipline, where […]
Restoration isn’t about taking a riverscape back to a set point when all was well, as is the popular view of restoration. It isn’t fixing up. It isn’t undoing what was done. Rather, it is about changing the direction in which a river’s becoming moves, by intervening in both the geomorphic and socio-cultural landscapes of […]
My very earliest forays into discovering the Los Angeles River, from a distance in Australia, had me thinking that it was all wide, trapezoidal flood control channel, like in the film Grease where Danny and Leo race hot-rods along the downtown stretch, their respective admirers watching on, every shot filled from edge to edge with […]
