If you pop over to the Don’t LA My Burbank Instagram you can see that this is one of their leaders, and they have endorsed Samantha Wick, Jackie Waltman, and david donohue for Burbank city council.
I’m super looking forward to when my daughter is old enough to participate in one of these! Hopefully all of our elementary schools have a bike bus in the future!
If you want to help Strong Towns Burbank push City Council to end the legal action with LA Metro then use this link: https://www.strongtownsburbank.com/cta
Since our local NIMBY group had a rally earlier this week with ~40 people…I’m expecting that we’ll only have 1 minute to give our public comments.
If you find yourself sitting next to Eddy Polon during the meeting be sure to thank him for working like crazy to organize support across a multitude of different activist organizations!
P.S. Anyone else chained to a desk during this meeting and planning to give their comment via phone while hiding under their desk so their boss doesn’t yell at them for not working? No? Just me? Oh.
Normally I take my daughter to play at the McCambridge park playground, but I decided to change it up recently and visit the playground at George Izay instead…I was shocked to find only ~4 kids playing vs the ~21+ that I usually find at McCambridge! We often go to George Izay for dance class and the park seems busy enough at those times so what gives?
Well, I was looking at city zoning maps and I think the answer is density! There’s a lot more dense housing within 1/4 mile of McCambridge which means there’s way more people living within walking distance. More people + normal chances of having children + an easy little walk = more people popping in randomly whenever they want to play.
But George Izay has WAY less dense housing even within 1/2 mile! So people only really go there when there’s a big event drawing them such a dance class, softball game, etc. this leads to the park being busy sometimes, and a ghost town at other times.
We deserve the ability to live within easy walking distance of things like parks, the doctors office, grocery stores, restaurants, etc so that we get to have the OPTION of not dealing with the hassle of driving, getting stuck in traffic, finding parking, paying for parking, and all that stuff! And when we’re not already within walking distance of those destinations then being within walking distance of great public transit which stops at those locations is a great way to bridge the gap!
The North Hollywood to Pasadena BRT will do exactly that by stopping at key locations like George Izay Park, St Joseph’s hospital, the Buena Vista Medical Center, the Downtown Area, and key employers like WB. So building dense housing by the BRT stops is a great way for us to give future residents the OPTION of getting to all those locations without forcing them to use a car. If you agree then use this link from Strong Towns Burbank to send an email to city council before their vote on the 20th: https://mailchi.mp/strongtownsburbank/brt-and-sb79