Just as Mayor Jim Hahn’s new administration was beginning to feel like the latest thing in regional torpor, last week saw a series of outright triumphs on the city‘s Green Front. Triumphs that promise a new era of livability to inner-city Angelenos and the rest of us besides.I’m not sure how much, if any, of the credit actually goes to Hahn, although some discredit goes to his predecessor, Dick Riordan. But a bit of glory does accrue to Governor Gray Davis, who has been justly maligned for his meandering responses to the state‘s monthslong power predicament. Despite the fiscal strains of the electricity crisis, Davis put into his budget the $5 million in matching funds needed to acquire the Chinatown Yards, a stretch of discarded railroad property adjacent to Chinatown. State park bonds had already secured $35 million toward the purchase of the land from developers, but the funds allocated by Davis were crucial to cinching the rescue.
Source: Green City | L.A. Weekly