GREEN TRAIL PLANNED ON RIVERBANK GLENDALE BUDGETS $500,000 TO GET STARTED ON LANDSCAPING.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE - The banks of a stretch of the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. in Glendale will be transformed into a trail for bicyclists, hikers and horseback riders under a plan approved Tuesday by the City Council. The council allocated $500,000 for the design and construction of the first phase of the Glendale Narrows RiverWalk project. City government will be reimbursed by a grant from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County's Safe Neighborhood Parks Neighborhood parks, which generally range in size up to 30 acres, serve as a social and recreational focal points for neighborhoods and are the basic units of a park system. Many include a playground. Act. ``The goal is to provide additional recreational opportunities, additional educational opportunities and additional environmental opportunities,'' said Nello Iacono, director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services. Proposed between Betty Davis
The trail will include one-half mile lighted for pedestrians and exercise, as well as about 500 feet for horseback riders. Native California shrubs and trees will be grown by the trail, and there will be two river-related environmental-art displays and four interpretative in·ter·pre·ta·tive adj. Variant of interpretive. in·ter  pre·ta stations with information about wildlife, urban
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The project design is due by September, and the first phase of construction is scheduled to start in April and end in November next year. In the second phase of the project, a vehicular and pedestrian bridge will be built over the Verdugo flood control channel Flood control channels are a series of large, concrete, and empty (except when a flood is actually present) open-air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run into the channels, and proceed to be , and a short walkway will link the Glendale RiverWalk to a new trail along the river from the Verdugo Wash south to Los Feliz Boulevard. In a third phase, multijurisdictional collaboration will be required to build a pedestrian and bicycle bridge across the Los Angeles River from Flower Street to the Ferraro Soccer Fields in Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. . Construction dates have not yet been established for second and third phases. ``I think what will ultimately occur is we can end up connecting with other projects ... to expand hiking, biking and equestrian opportunities people have,'' said Iacono. Under the Los Angeles River Master Plan, adopted by county government in 1995, cities along the flood-control channel would improve the banks and transform them into a public greenbelt corridor. With the $500,000 allocated for the first phase of the project, Pamela Burton & Co. will get $62,000 for design services, and the rest will be spent on construction. Pamela Burton & Co. landscape architects also designed the ABC-Channel 7 campus and was chosen from 16 firms that submitted proposals, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the city staff. The staff had solicited proposals from 40 companies. A panel of representatives from Disney Imagineering, ABC-Channel 7, Friends of the Los Angeles River and city government interviewed six finalists. CAPTION(S): map Map: GLENDALE NARROWS RIVERWALK Daily News |
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