To the editor: Because of columnist Patt Morrison for her great historical past of a few of our parks and the shortage of parks within the metropolis of Los Angeles (“Feel a bit crowded at the park? Why L.A. park spaces come up short,” Might 6).
Readers must also learn about the current effort, as a part of constitution reform, to get a measure on the poll in November to permit our metropolis parks to obtain enough funding.
Our complete metropolis park system, together with all of the leisure applications, senior facilities and different providers supplied at these parks, has had the identical proportion of town price range since 1937.
As a current member of the Constitution Reform Fee, I urge Angelenos to contact their Metropolis Council members and ask to get a measure on the November poll so we will go from .033% to .066% of town annual price range for our parks (sure, you learn that appropriately; nonetheless lower than 1% of the annual price range).
Everybody is aware of the worth of parks, open house, leisure applications, and so on. Can we please persuade our council after which our voters of this essential matter?
Mona Subject, Eagle Rock
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To the editor: I appreciated and agreed with Morrison’s lament on the dearth of parks in Los Angeles. If solely that 1927 plan she mentions hadn’t successfully been dropped off the tip of the Santa Monica Pier, by no means to see the sunshine of the solar!
However there may be one relatively giant oversight: Topanga State Park is said to be the most important wildland inside the confines of a metropolis wherever on this planet. That won’t assist the nice folks of Maywood or others “who actually deserve the dignity of lovely parks” close to them, however certainly our 11,000 acres of beautiful wilderness depend for one thing.
Susan Hanger, Topanga
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To the editor: Kudos to Morrison for noting the necessity for extra park house in Los Angeles. How appalling that there’s extra paved car parking zone floor than park house within the metropolis.
Morrison touched on simply the tip of the issue. Even park house, with its acres of turf, doesn’t clear up the intense drawback of reducing biodiversity in our group and world. In fact concrete inhibits the interplay of wildlife, however a large unfold of grass is principally an ecological desert. Grass is beneficial for picnics and youngsters’s play areas, however doesn’t in any other case serve us properly.
We have to deliver again native vegetation in abundance to encourage biodiversity, not simply in parklands, however out our entrance doorways. Yards, balconies, window bins and container gardens might be magnets for native fauna. Think about median strips, shopping center borders and company workplace constructing roofs planted with indigenous flora, hopefully creating corridors for the motion of native fauna.
Los Angeles is dwelling to nearly 4 million people who rely on biodiversity to outlive. We don’t must reside in a concrete jungle.
Margaret Baker Davis, Claremont
