What: Parking Day LA (http://parkingdayla.com/)
When: September 19, 2008, 9am – 3pm
Who: From Lot to Spot and Environmental Charter High School students, FLTS’s Spaces of Blight program will be creating an interactive, mobile mini-park
Where: Shopping Center on the corner of Rosecrans Ave and Isis Ave, City of Hawthorne, see map attached.
** our mini-park is mobile and we will change location if needed – due to sour Sam’s and Poopie Peter’s who want to rain on our parade –– please contact me -310-780-5461 and I will provide our location**

Why: To advocate the creation of more parkspace instead of concentrating on urban development that reinforces dependency on the vehicle. Citizens, community groups, artists and activist throughout the county will be creating mini-parks in parking space throughout the County of Los Angeles. A map of the Parking Day LA spaces is available at http://parkingdayla.com/.

We hope this County-wide event promotes critical awareness for creating walkable, livable communities that include more parks and opportunities for pedestrians to enjoy their communities again. We must question the “basic” assumptions about how we use our urban space. The time is now to create change in our built environment.
We need to move away from the “metal metropolis” mentality and shift to the “sustainable city” model. And creating more parkspace is a start.
Join us for the advocacy and just ol’ plain fun!

For more information on PARKING DAY LA and to view other projects visit http://www.parkingdayla.com/