To the editor: Concerning the large issues at Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park and the encircling neighborhood, the very very last thing that town must do is spend a single penny on redesigning that park throughout this disaster. (“By MacArthur Park, the lights are out and residents are uninterested in empty guarantees,” column, Sept. 14)
I realized way back in my panorama structure training a truism that also holds: You can’t remedy a social downside with an architectural design.
Clear up that park. Repair the rattling lighting. Get individuals into drug rehab if they need it. Get them into housing. Do one thing. Do something.
And take that cash from the preposterously bloated Los Angeles Police Division funds to do it. The division is bleeding this metropolis’s coffers dry whereas Los Angeles falls aside and folks undergo and die.
Mickey Fielding, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Steve Lopez hits the nail on the top with what’s flawed systematically with L.A. County and metropolis authorities. The nonresponse by native authorities and bureaucrats continues, with only a few exceptions.
Los Angeles can not rebound from the present state of despair and decay on our streets except all the metropolis and county management begins doing its job.
As for the damaged lighting round MacArthur Park, a minimum of somebody please say, “Let there be mild.”
Mark Silverman, Marina del Rey
