Local News in Brief : Funds Vowed to Buy Rock
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Councilman Richard Alatorre pledged Tuesday to find city funds or help raise private money to buy the 50-foot landmark boulder from which Eagle Rock gets its name.
Alatorre and an aide to the mayor made the offer to about 50 community residents who came to a City Hall hearing Tuesday to oppose a developer’s plan to build a two-story apartment house on land next to the rock. The residents said the project would obscure views of the imposing boulder, which has an eagle-shaped indentation.
The boulder was declared a city monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board in 1982.
Alatorre and the Bradley aide said they oppose a proposed zone change that would allow Beverly Hills developer Kenneth Bank to build on the southeast side of the boulder. They said they would ask the Parks and Recreation Department this week for money to buy the 2.6-acre lot on which the boulder stands.
Bank has said that he would donate 1.5 acres of the property, including the rock itself, to the city for a park if he is granted the zone change.
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