South Park Los Angeles

She lives in Hancock Park and often takes the bus: Gail Goldberg is our chief city planner and she is a tremendous asset for Los Angeles: bringing a powerful advocacy to reducing congestion and getting people out of their cars and onto cycles (please see http://www.wabicycles.com/) and walking again: seeing Los Angeles in all it’s grit and grandeur.

She has an agenda that the Downtown L.A’s Business Blog supports: the 12-2 initiative: allowing developers to only deal with two city offices- the Planning, and Building and Safety departments, instead of the 12 they normally visit for approval.

We’d like her to look at what the South Park Development Group is doing in tandem with E L V Motors and Wabi Cycles: Developing a powerful inner-city zero-emission alternative to polluting cars and cycles. It’s called the South Park Sustainability Shop and it is selling, servicing, and customizing absolutely zero-emission cycles,all electric delivery vans, scooters, and cars, and motorcycles. Vans and cars you literally plug into a wall socket and recharge. Imagine, Gail, just imagine, a whole city department running off of fully electric fleet vans, and police on bicycles with an extra range of power and range due to electric powered engines?

Alternatives must be sought and the South Park Development Group, working with E L V Motors is developing these alternatives. In the days and weeks ahead the South Park Development Group and E L V Motors will be talking to Gail and to Robert Ovrum, L.A’s Deputy Mayor of Economic Development about transforming our city core into a best-practice, ground-zero zone that supports through advocacy and economic grants, their efforts to make Los Angeles truly green. from → Zero-Emission Vehicles: Bicycles, Zero-Emission Vehicles: Electric Cars, branding innovation and entrepreneurship by martin cavanaugh porter