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we’re looking for a few good planning ideas (Q&A with L.A. planning director)

Posted on November 22, 2010 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

We want you & your best ideas for planning & making Los Angeles a better place. Join UEPI at Occidental College on December 1 for a Q&A session with recently-appointed L.A. City Planning Director Michael LoGrande and L.A. Times architecture…

how healthy is eagle rock’s food environment

Posted on November 22, 2010 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

I wrote a piece for Patch Eagle Rock about the food environment in the neighborhood.

Tagged with: Eagle Rock, food access, local food
Posted in Built Environment, Food and Transportation, Grocery Accountability Project, Streets

The cost of a gobal food chain

Posted on October 21, 2010 by UEPI Occidental College — No Comments ↓

Check out the op ed from yesterday’s L.A. Times written by Bob Gottlieb. We hope to see you folks at the Moving Forward Together Conference this Friday and Saturday to talk more about these important issues! The cost of a…

Food Justice and Food Trucks

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Robert Gottlieb — 1 Comment ↓

As they spread from the East Side to neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles – and increasingly across the country – food trucks have emerged as the latest example of the new forms of food access, a key food justice issue. Giulia…

Tagged with: Food Justice, mobile food, mobile vending
Posted in Food and Transportation, Streets, Transportation

A is for Safe, but H is for Healthy: Grading Mobile Food Vendors

Posted on September 22, 2010 by gpasciuto — No Comments ↓

In another attempt to regulate mobile vending, the L.A. County Department of Public Health will consider applying the health inspector’s letter grading system used in restaurants to food trucks, affecting nearly 10,000 vendors county-wide. An L.A. Times article reported that…

don’t restrict food trucks- legalize sidewalk vending!

Posted on June 17, 2010 by markvallianatos — 3 Comments ↓

City Council members tom LaBonge and Paul Koretz introduced motions last week to restrict where food trucks can park on commercial streets. Their goal is to ‘Restrict catering trucks from parking in parking meters in commercially zoned areas’ and to…

Tagged with: food trucks, sidewalk vending, streets
Posted in Built Environment, Food and Transportation, Streets

a small slice of mobile food vending in south los angeles

Posted on April 15, 2010 by markvallianatos — 1 Comment ↓

UEPI is partnering with Esperanza Community Housing Corporation and The Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles on a project to examine the connection between transportation, land use and food access in South Los Angeles and identify best practices to get…

Community Transformation in draft health care bill

Posted on June 16, 2009 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee just released a draft of a health care reform bill (minus the ‘public option’ that will hopefully be part of the final plan). Section C of Title III is entitled Creating Healthier…