[CPEO-BIF] Magic Johnson Park, former oil storage facility, Willowbrook, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Magic Johnson Park in Willowbrook slated to get an equestrian center


by Abby Sewell
Los Angeles Times (CA)
February 23, 2016

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to approve an ambitious plan to renovate a county-run park in the community of Willowbrook, near Compton and South Los Angeles.

But residents of the area were sharply divided over one piece of the plan — a new planned horse stable and equestrian center.

The county plans to renovate the Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, a 104-acre recreational space on the site of a former oil storage facility, over 18 years at an estimated cost of $135 million.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-magic-johnson-park-horses-20160223-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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