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Our committee chairs host office hours and neighborhood stakeholders gather for project workshops
to help advance several community-driven initiatives - for Downtown Los Angeles.

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Harlem Place Project - Community Meeting


Harlem Place is one of many interstitial spaces in our Downtown community that could potentially be transformed into active open space for our neighborhood to use. How might you use this alley? Would you walk your dog here? Does your business access it for deliveries? Is this a potential park space for our community?

Harlem Place Project Community Meeting
Thursday, November 19 6:30pm-8:30pm
LATC - 514 S. Spring Street

There is a team of students from Bren School for the Environment (UC Santa Barbara) working to develop a tool to allow us to understand the environmental impact through transformation of this space. As part of their final project, they will present three scenarios - and your input at this meeting will help them understand what the community wants. For more information on the project, check out the project website. Join us!

If you can't make the meeting, please complete this survey and let us know your thoughts.
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Harlem Place Project - Integrating Small-Scale Urban Greenspace into Downtown

Masters students from the UC-Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science & Management have taken on a research project focusing on the environmental advantages of transforming our "interstitial" spaces into more livable open space. The team is using Harlem Place as a pilot and will begin working full-time in Fall 2009 to analyze the potential of this space. In late 2009, the Sustainability Committee began surveying the neighborhood and the students met with members of the community to better understand how Harlem Place is currently used, what the neighborhood concerns and ambitions were for green space, and the potential function of a green alley for Downtown.

Then in January 2010, the students partnered with AECOM to create a few physical scenarios to help us better understand what the potential benefits are of using this space more sustainably and some of these visuals will be presented to the community to provide some "food-for-thought" as to what a Green Alley can really look like.

Join us Monday, May 3, 2010 at 7:00pm at Lost Soul's Cafe for a community presentation of the research and "tool" the Bren graduate student team has developed to help Downtown Los Angeles become a more sustainable neighborhood.

We want to know what you think about urban greenspace and Harlem Place. Complete this survey today! If you are interested in helping us gather information or community feedback, please contact us at sustainability@dlanc.com

For more information, including their project proposal, please check out their website: http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~greenla/Homepage.html

Meeting Agendas:
1. 2009.10.18 Post-Summer Regroup at NC Office
2. Harlem Place Project Community Meeting
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