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Maylin

@maylin.bsky.social

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Freelance reporter in LA. Bus shelters, bathrooms, sidewalks, trees. Signal: maylin.44

"Sidewalk repair is a big issue for Los Angeles. Former mayor Richard Riordan was considering allocating funds from an expected tobacco industry lawsuit settlement for sidewalk repairs. When the city was found liable in a series of lawsuits against police misconduct, funds from the tobacco judgment were hastily earmarked to cover the cost of the police settlements."
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Text group: "OME Chiefs, 6 members" A text message says: "In LADOT press clips: https://futureis.la/p/la-has-stopped-repaving-our-streets" Response says "A good read," Thanks for sharing"
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Hillcrest Drive Elementary in the heart of L.A.’s Crenshaw District was awarded a nearly $1 million Prop 84 grant to green its schoolyard in 2012 as one of the top-ranked projects by the California Natural Resources Agency. After the original nonprofit could no longer shoulder the cost of working with LAUSD, the L.A. County Department of Public Works took over the Hillcrest greening project in 2015. Ten years later, a spokesperson for the agency told AfroLA that the project is set to break ground in 2026, 14 years after the grant was awarded. Records obtained by AfroLA show that the project has repeatedly missed deadlines for completion.
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Acquiring new park property, as I noted earlier, has historically proven difficult for LA. But even though the team identified existing public land each of those proposed park areas, there's least one park just waiting to be developed in every single high-need grid cell — an LAUSD schoolyard. Last week LAUSD's board unanimously voted to approve a long-awaited joint-powers agreement with the city to operate parks on campuses. This new agreement means LA no longer needs to go through a separate permitting process for each new school it adds, says Councilmember Nithya Raman, who has been spearheading the city's Community School Parks program.