Shade Trees
* Re “Plan to Make Ventura Boulevard a Stroller’s Paradise Is Proposed,” July 31.
The other day, I was driving down Ventura Boulevard from Studio City to Tarzana and noticed the total lack of shade trees on a long stretch in Encino and Tarzana. There are plenty of palm trees, but those do little to provide shelter from the scorching sun. Since the San Fernando Valley burns in the heat for many months of the year, shade trees would go a long way toward making Ventura Boulevard more pedestrian-friendly.
Trees add great beauty and much-needed temperature reduction, qualities that would certainly encourage this writer to want to walk the boulevard. Los Angeles Planning Department, please take notice.
NINA FENSTER
Tarzana
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