Want a Park? Do It Yourself

Meet the future location of Studio Oaks Park where a grassroots effort is the only way this strip of unusable, rat-infested land will become a park. In Los Angeles, if you really want to get something done, you've got to take it upon yourself. In the southeast Valley, residents are doing just that.

On Ventura Blvd. where Sherman Oaks and Studio City meets, there's a median separating the commercial part of the street from the residential side, which has no sidewalks. On this strip, community members want to turn the wide median into Studio Oaks Park, complete with a walkable path and native plants.