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FLTS proud to be part of Verde Coalition
The Verde Coalition is a diverse coalition of environmental, community and labor organizations working to create new parks and open spaces to serve our Los Angeles’ low income neighborhoods that have the most residents and fewest parks.
Verde Coalition Members: Coalition LA, Acla, Audubon Center at Debs Park, Collective SPACE, Environmental Defense, From Lot to Spot, SEIU Local 721, Los Angeles Conservation Corps, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, Los Angeles Community Garden Council, North East Trees, People for Parks, Progressive Christians Uniting, TreePeople, Steve Cancian, Jessica Hall, Alex Kenefick, David Marquez, Gary Phillips, Misty Sanford, Carrie Sutkin
Our Mission Statement
From Lot to Spot’s (FLTS) mission is to stimulate and contribute to community economic development in blighted communities by facilitating the creation of accessible green and open spaces. We promote social and economic revitalization through beautification through the creation of park spaces from vacant, blighted lots. FLTS strives to address the need and inequity of park/green space in underserved and blighted neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area.
From Lot to Spot, through its vision of empowering neighborhoods one vacant lot at a time, works to empower residents by ensuring community participation and collaboration in every step of the decision-making process involved in creating these spaces and improving their neighborhoods.
Hawthorne Mall Public Input
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:03am — vivianaThe Hawthorne Mall has been vacant since the early 1990’s.
Developer and owner the Charles Company along with the City of Hawthorne would like to hear your thoughts and ideas on redevelopment ideas. - SEE ATTACHMENT BELOW-
As proponents and advocates of revitalization through beautification we hope that the Hawthorne Mall will have a public space component similar to many large developments that offer a commumity public space incentive such as pocket park, greenspace, etc. We look forward to working with the City of Hawthorne and the Charles Company in creating a development that will benefit the entire Hawthorne community.
Spaces of Blight Class 2010 Parks Study
Mon, 05/10/2010 - 11:03am — viviana23 Students. 10 Parks. 5 Cities. 1 study: Park Value amongst Park Users.
Because of the current economic climate, the SOB class has redirected the focus of the program this semester. We decided, as a collective whole, that we needed to do a study to assess whether communities value their parks.
The guiding question: What good is creating more access to green and park space if community members do not value them because existing parks do not meet their needs? Do community members value their parks?
It is important to know why people value their parks, but more importantly if they do not and why. We hope with this study to deduct some interesting theories that will help us, help park builders create future successful spaces that meet the needs of the ever changing urban community.
We look forwarding to publishing results in late June 2010. As always, stay tuned! Thank you!
View SOB Spring 2010 Parks Study in a larger map
Bring President Obama to the South Bay!
Wed, 04/28/2010 - 10:53am — vivianaOur community partner and home to our Spaces of Blight Project, Environmental Charter High School has been selected by President Obama’s Race to the Top Commencement Challenge!
It is one of only six schools in the entire nation and we couldn’t be prouder!
Please help us by voting on our video at www.whitehouse.gov/commencement . Voting starts Monday April 26th and ends on Thursday, Arpil 29th – one vote per computer .
Here is how you can support ECHS:
1) Starting Monday, click on the www.whitehouse.gov/commencement link to watch our students’ video
2) Vote for ECHS (we hope for all 5s!)
3) Forward this email to everybody you know
4) Tell everybody you know to also forward this email to everybody THEY know!
Thank you so much for supporting environmental education!
118th/Doty Update
Mon, 04/19/2010 - 9:02am — vivianaAlthough seemingly we lost this battle, we like to keep the community updated on the developments of this property. There was so much hope, and so much community empowerment, but in the end political will was not in favor of the people.
What could’ve been a beautiful community park is now becoming a second rate housing development in a community that has no need for more single family homes, but in desperate need of parks and open space.
FLTS will continue to work for the fair and equitable distribution of parkspace in low-income, communites of color.
The struggle continues and there are plenty of battles to be won.
