Transit Oriented District Community Workshop - Vernon (6 pm)
(Augustus Hawkins Nature Park
5790 Compton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90011)

Imagine a neighborhood with safer routes to school, easier access to trains and buses, better places to live, work and play and greener, walkable and bikeable streets.

Last year, the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, with funding from the LA County Department of Public Health, began a community-based planning effort to create 10 new Transit Oriented Districts (TOD’s) along the Metro Blue and Green Lines in South Los Angeles. Based on field work, land-use analysis, community bike and walk audits and interactive community visioning, City Planners have now created draft plans for review at series of upcoming community workshops.

South Los Angeles suffers the highest morbidity and mortality rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity in Los Angeles County. Changing our neighborhoods to promote healthy activities such as walking and biking is one way we can help address this critical health issue. TOD’s can promote a healthier lifestyle by encouraging walking, biking and the use of mass transit. In addition, TOD’s can transform a neighborhood, generate investment, create jobs and provide residents with better places to live, work, and play.

Join us at a series of community workshops to share view the preliminary plan and share your ideas for the neighborhoods around each station.

Vernon/Slauson