Most of my friends know that I am President of the Brian Ulaszewski fan club. He’s a good friend, a confidant and one of the smarest guys in Long Beach. He’s been writing for the lbpost.com for few months and the response has been great. I met Brian as he advocated for his brilliant Armory Park concept a few years ago. The Post has covered the park on a few occasions…and to this day, it is the subject that has received the most comments on this site. People love this idea.
Dave Wielenga at The District has written an excellent and informative piece about Brian’s fight with our city traffic engineer to get this concept off the ground. Take a read and join the cause…the residents of the 7th and MLK neighborhood desperately need green space. The city needs to act.
Here’s an excerpt from the article…
“This wasn’t just some whim I had one day. It came to me over time, and I took my ideas to a lot of people and a lot of agencies before I even took them to Bonnie Lowenthal,” Ulaszewski continues, and he briefly picks up one packet of studies as if remembering that day, then quickly sets it down as if remembering this one. “But it’s been almost four years since then—two years of bureaucratic stuff and now two years of nothing.”
Read the entire article here.