Projects
Completed ($506,900)
- Comprehensive Community Work Plan
- Sun Vally Community Plaza (adjascent to Sun Valley Park)
- Decorative river rock walls at bus stops adjacent to Metrolink right-of-way
- Metrolink right-of-way landscaping in conjunction with the MTA
- Facade painting project with local businesses
- Bus shelters (6) with matching benches (6), trash receptacles and information kiosk (1)
- Trees (76) and Tree well plantings
- Banners (24)
- Transit corridor lights (34)
LANI Sustainable Organization
In accordance with LANI's program design, the Sun Valley Recognized Community Organization (RCO) created a new nonprofit - the Sun Valley Neighborhood Improvement Organization (SVNIO.) LANI continues to provide some support services to Sun Valley, but most of their activities are independent from LANI.
Additional Benefits
of LANI Program
- The NIO secured $46,154 in in-kind goods and services for its Community Plaza Park project
- Sun Valley leveraged LANI funds with a $10,000 donation from a local businessman.
- Sun Valley secured special permission from the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works to plant greenery in lieu of tree well grates - the first such approval in the Los Angeles.
- The NIO secured a $1,680 grant from Venture Council of Los Angeles, a local nonprofit, for tree maintenance.
- Sun Valley received a $12,115 grant from the Urban Resources Partnership for community greening
- Sun Valley secured $3,700 in in-kind materials and labor from Home Depot, Polytechnic High School, People-in-Progress, and various businesses and contractors for the Metrolink R-O-W Project.
- Sun Valley received $2,030 in trees and trees planting from Los Angeles Conservation Corps
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