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.

Joan Pelico of Councilman Jack Weiss' office was there to help support the project as an organizing force, but not a funding one. Pelico said she is all about "brutal honesty... do not expect the city to come in later and take over this." Tessa Charnofsky of the Mayor's Office also came out and said that Mayor Villaraigosa is excited to see a community taking initiative.

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