Go Weigh In on the Park

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, June 21, 2006, at 03:42PM

Grand Ave Park Presentation Eric Richardson [Flickr]

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If you haven’t made it to today’s Grand Avenue Park get together you’ve still got two hours before the 5:30 meeting. I wandered over midday and found it interesting,if scorchingly hot. Info boards (pictured) provided an overview of other parks around the world, history of Downtown and ideas for the park.

On the far right was a board listing various proposed features. Participants were given ten green dots to place on the ones they found most appealing. I voted for a lawn / open space, a reflecting pool / pond, and pedestrian bridges. I was pleased to note that they did have an item for my ever-stated request for frisbee space, but I figured that could be grouped into the lawn and cast my votes there.

The 5:30 event will be webcast in annoying Windows Media format, and will be archived on the Grand Intervention website.



Comments

1
fbar writes:

Here is what that green dot voting board looked like at the end of the day: final tally

# on Jun.22.2006 AT 08:19 AM
2
Tim Quinn writes:

The meeting was a wake up call and admission by Related that there is not nearly enough money in the budget to do it right. (I missed anything before 6:30, having a business to run, but heard the talking points at the group think tables from our moderator)

I am beginning to think they should leave it alone and spend the money on the block between Broadway and Spring, currently a parking lot.

But certain statements haunted me after the meeting, $13 million to fix the ramps at Grand, another 13 to fix the ramps at Hill. That’s already almost the whole budget and we haven’t talked about anything green yet. What is needed here is a huge Broad-like fundraising effort, and only months before the barriers go up. ?!?!?!?

I was also reminded how certain loud-mouths with issues can dominate a meeting and waste everyone’s time.

# on Jun.22.2006 AT 10:12 AM

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