Imelda and Youth at Charrette
We had two very successful charrettes yesterday at San Fernando High School! Dozens of students attended,as well as many adult residents,to give their input on a new pocket park and improvements to a local overpass.
Fox Park is a planned pocket park project led by the LA Neighborhood Land Trust for a piece of vacant land near San Fernando High School. The idea for this land to be converted to a pocket park originated out of a PB Summer Youth Institute,so it’s been thrilling and rewarding to see it move forward! Students and community residents gave great ideas of what they’d like to see,including recreational space for young children. Thanks so much to Alina Bokde (left) from the LANLT for spearheading this effort!
The second half of the night was spent discussing possible improvements to two pathways often used by San Fernando HS students:a pedestrian bridge connecting San Fernando HS with Ritchie Valens Park,and the pedestrian tunnel running under the 118 freeway at Haddon Street. Jan Dryer,a landscape architect at Mia Lehrer and Associates,and led the session and got great responses from the youth about how they’d like to see these pathways improved.
Check out our Flickr page for a lot more pictures of the event,or this LA Creek Freak post for more background!
