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May 26, 2007 at 05:07 PM |
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The Van Buren Place Community Restoration Association is an active block club in South Los Angeles. We have members on 8 or 9 blocks in the area between Adams Blvd. south to 30th Street and Normandie Avenue east to Catalina Street. We take part in our local Neighborhood Council, maintain this website, serve on the board of our local historic preservation district, plant trees, act as a Neighborhood Watch to keep gangs and crime at bay, and join with neighbors to have a good time. We were instrumental, with other nearby block clubs, the University of Southern California, and several nonprofits, in creating the Richardson Family Park at 27th Street and Budlong Avenue, which the community completed in 1999 and donated to the city. We assume ongoing responsibility to work with city agencies and USC to maintain the park. |
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Jun 10, 2007 at 09:24 PM |
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Once there was an empty lot where children played among discarded tires, torn mattresses, and broken bottles. Then neighbors got together and decided to make the lot into a real park. |
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Jun 13, 2007 at 01:10 PM |
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In the spirit of opening a discussion with a broad group of neighbors on the kind of community we all want to live in, in 1998 the Van Buren Place Community Restoration Association wrote and published a pamphlet in English and Spanish entitled Community Standards/Las Normas Comunitarias. The pamphlet provides information on city regulations on maintaining residential property, stray animals, disposal of large trash items, illegal home business, statutes on excessive noise, and other issues of concern to many residents. |
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