To the editor: Most of the homes, duplexes and multi-tenant buildings in our historic neighborhoods usually have setbacks and yards with permeable floor with area for giant shade bushes, which assist to mitigate warmth islands for everybody’s profit (“Almost half of L.A. County’s pavement could also be pointless, new map finds,” Feb. 16). These neighborhoods really feel and really are cooler within the scorching months. In lots of Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, fortunately, you aren’t purported to cowl the entrance of your property with double-wide driveways, parking pads, extra-wide pathways, plastic grass or gravel.
In the meantime, our metropolis and state push for denser developments, and builders construct to the property strains. We should require new buildings to incorporate area for large shade bushes planted within the floor for a livable and wholesome metropolis. Nice cities have an abundance of pocket parks, so we have to clear up for this, too.
Ann Rubin, Los Angeles
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To the editor: It’s very thrilling to see a front-page article on Speed up Resilience L.A.’s hardscape examine. Nevertheless, it was irritating that it fully omitted the truth that Measure W imposes a parcel tax on non-public property homeowners for each sq. foot of impermeable floor on their property. There is a monetary incentive for personal property homeowners to cut back the quantity of hardscape on their property.
To make it simpler to grasp the advantages of eradicating hardscape, Speed up Resilience L.A. has created a digital on-line instrument, which deserves its personal separate article.
Ian McIlvaine, Venice
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To the editor: I’m writing to applaud Meg Tanaka for the wonderful article on L.A.’s pavement issues. Working in an space that’s usually intimidating — local weather and surroundings — she comes throughout with stable reporting that additionally permits readers to really feel linked to doable progress.
Corporations that take away concrete ought to anticipate the telephone to be ringing, and nurseries that promote bushes ought to be able to ship.
Judith Martin-Straw, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: The article on depaving L.A. jogged my memory of after I first arrived in Los Angeles in June of 1969. I had taught at excessive faculties and a center college in Connecticut that had been surrounded by grassy fields and mature bushes. I used to be shocked on the faculties surrounded by acres of asphalt right here. And after 57 years, it seems as if little has modified.
Bob Lentz, Sylmar
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To the editor: I agree on the necessity for much less concrete — however please do plan for the continuance of sidewalks, or strolling trails of some kind by means of any concrete removing.
I say this after relocating from San Pedro to northwest Georgia virtually 9 years in the past now. My frustration is that so many neighborhood roads within the Southern states (particularly in rural areas) are very slim, with no shoulders or sidewalks, making it troublesome to discover a place to take walks with out the hazard of being hit by a car.
Gail Midday, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.
