Los Angeles has 94,767 street palms, and 219,553 empty spots where a tree could stand
The city’s first street tree inventory since 1996 counts every palm along its streets. One in four of the planting sites it surveyed has no tree in it.
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LA’s parks department said the city needs 71 new dog parks by 2050. It has opened one in the last seven years.
Recreation and Parks counts 14 off-leash dog parks and recommends 85 by 2050. Its most recent one opened in South LA in November 2022, and the next isn’t due until 2027.
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on earth… Why?
LA Metro’s design specifications state that its escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.
LA’s speed camera plan mostly skips the Valley’s worst intersections
Six of LA’s ten highest-collision intersections are in the San Fernando Valley. Five of those six have no approved speed camera site within 400 meters.
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LA has the fourth-lowest vacancy rate among the 30 U.S. cities with the most homes
LA has more empty homes than homeless people.
Downtown LA is 1% of the land and 16% of LA’s jobs
Census employment estimates put Downtown far ahead of every other LA neighborhood.
International traffic at LAX has nearly recovered. The real shortfall is domestic
Domestic flights account for most of LAX’s passenger shortfall since 2019.
Downtown LA has 928 restaurants… Bel-Air has nine
The county’s permit register counts 11,573 restaurants in the city, half of them in 20 of its 114 neighborhoods.
Five council districts have no Metro rail station at all
They are all in the San Fernando Valley, they hold 1,290,946 people between them, and that is a third of Los Angeles.
Heather Hutt’s district has permitted more housing per year than any other, and almost none of it is built yet
Since taking office in 2022, Council District 10 has permitted a net 6,558 new homes, about 1,670 a year, more than any sitting member’s district.
Two council districts have almost the same number of parks, and one has sixty times the land
Council District 8 in South Los Angeles has 28 city park sites covering 85 acres.
