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Hollywood farmers market: who owns the streets

Posted on January 13, 2011 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

The Hollywoood farmers markets, one of the social and food hearts of the City of Los Angeles is under threat. An adjacent property owner is objecting to the market’s use of its long-time location on Ivar street. Negotiations are underway…

Gottlieb to be a guest on “Which Way, L.A.”

Posted on December 14, 2010 by UEPI Occidental College — No Comments ↓

Robert Gottlieb will be a guest tonight on Warren Olney’s “Which Way, L.A.” show on KCRW speaking about low income farmers markets and the current issues surrounding the Hollywood Farmer’s market. The show will premier at 7:00 pm PST, and…

Tagged with: Food Justice, holly wood farmers markets, streets
Posted in Streets

transforming Eagle Rock’s streets

Posted on November 23, 2010 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

Opinion piece on the possibility of improving the streets of Eagle Rock. Basically, treat them like valuable public space and as places people want to be near, rather than as sewers to rush cars along.

Tagged with: bike lanes, Eagle Rock, planning, streets
Posted in Built Environment, 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…

just a stroll

Posted on September 14, 2010 by markvallianatos — No Comments ↓

Rebecca Solnit’s purposely and gorgeously meandering wanderlust: a history of walking identifies ‘basic freedoms’ that allow us to walk in the world. Solnit describes three freedoms; I’ll break one into its two component parts, so four freedoms, paralleling FDR’s. “One…

Tagged with: rebecca solnit, streets, walking
Posted in Built Environment, Streets, Transportation

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