Ex-Dodger owner wants a gondola to the stadium, but city says land needed for a gondola tower is set for affordable housing.
A controversial project that would move passengers in sky-high gondolas to Dodger Stadium is getting some substantial pushback from the city of Los Angeles and a prominent, anti-gang nonprofit, even as a new survey finds a majority of respondents support the project.
In a Jan. 17, 2023 letter to the lead agency on the project, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority , Szabo wrote that the city will not give up the land because it has given an exclusive negotiating agreement to Friends of Homeboy, LLC, part of nearby Homeboy Industries, to build transitional housing and affordable housing with supportive services and a community center on the property.
On the same date, Homeboy’s Chief Executive Officer Thomas Vozzo wrote in a letter that the gondola project’s Alpine Tower could prevent its affordable housing development from being built, erasing the nonprofit’s ability to carry out the county and city’s “care first, jails last” policy. Between Dec. 6 and Dec. 10, the company surveyed 1,035 registered voters across Los Angeles County. The responses were collected by phone and internet poll in both English and Spanish.
“It is not only the 125,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents that will be averted by having the gondola, it is the influence of it,” he said on Feb. 15. “As an iconic introduction to mass transit, it can change the hearts and minds of Angelenos.” In a letter to LA Metro, Barbara Heinsleigh, the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter’s Central Group chair, said the project’s proposed Chinatown/State Park Station would drastically alter views and damage the natural habitat of the 32-acre park. She wrote that 81 trees would be removed; 71 taken from the park and six from nearby.
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