Help Save Griffith Park -- Here's How:

1- Write letters to: Councilmember Tom Labonge, and to the Cultural Heritage Commission. They are both at City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. We have provided samples below, but your own words are always better.

2- Send e-mails right now to: Councilmember.Labonge@lacity.org  & the Cultural Heritage Commission  CHC@lacity.org
  
3- Go the the Friends of Griffith Park website to submit your name as a supporter of protecting the park. http://www.friendsofgriffithpark.org/GPPreservationRegister.html  

4- Attend the Cultural Heritage Commission Meeting on October 2nd to personally voice your support for preserving all of Griffith Park as an Historic-Cultural Monument of the City of Los Angeles.

Open letter from Lee Zebold, L.A. Hiking Meetup Group

Although this hiking club was not created to be a political organ, sometimes we have to engage in a fight to preserve what we like to do.....go hiking.

Griffith Park is unofficially our home - it is where the genesis of the LA Meet Up Hiking Group began.

Griffith Park is UNDER ATTACK

I am writing to ask you to support the Griffith Family's application to the City to have the Griffith Park designated a Historic Monument in the City of Los Angeles.

ALL of Griffith Park must be protected, not just the existing landmarks (e. g., the Greek Theater, the Zoo, the Adobe House, the Observatory etc).

The interior must be protected as an urban wilderness; a green, open bastion of tranquility, unique in the City of Los Angeles.

Although public support for this application is almost 100%, right now it looks like councilman Tom LaBonge will kill the entire application as he has effectively stated is his intention to private parties. Publicly, he's using scare tactics about "infrastructure" that have no real merit... really sad, but unfortunately true. We thought he was our friend.

So without an overwhelming response from the public and community groups, this is likely to happen. What does that mean to you??? Well, they have plans on the table, and have for a couple years now, to turn our Park into a Disneyland with aerial tramways, restaurants, amusements, and other ways to bilk money out of the citizens. They will have controlled hiking trails, restricting most of the trials that we now use. Our "city planners" have long drooled at the 4400 acre Griffith Park as a tremendous resource to become a Cash Cow for the City.

I am going to create a webpage and email you all again with the link. It will have a form letter that you can use if you don't feel like writing your own letters. Of course, personal letters are more effective than form letters, but anything will help. Please write to each commissioner individually.

Cultural Heritage Commission
Office of Historic Resources
L.A. Department of City Planning
200 N. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The individual commissioners are: Richard Barron, President; Glen Dake; Miriam Guttfreund Lehrer; Oz Scott; and Roella H. Louie.

Also, a letter to Tom LaBonge would be good, too....

Councilmember Tom LaBonge
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring Street
Room 480
Los Angeles, CA 90012