An east Culver City park named after one of the city’s well-known public servants is in line to get some new recreational enhancements.
They voted unanimously on March 5 to award $2 million to eight cities, including Culver City, for park improvement projects.
Culver City’s share of the funding will be allocated for playground improvements projects at Syd Kronenthal Park. The $250,000 will go toward installing enhancements in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
County documents indicate that the playground project will be exempt from the California Environmental Protection Act. Better known as CEQA, the 1970 statewide landmark statute is the basis for environmental law and policy to protect environmental quality in California.
Culver City will be the lead agency on the playground enhancement initiative, called the Syd Kronenthal Park Playground Rehabilitation Project. “The project consists of rehabilitation of existing public structures or facilities, involving no negligible or expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency’s determination,” state county documents.
The funding comes from the Los Angeles County Safe Neighborhoods Parks Proposition of 1996. Known as Proposition A, the measure, authored by Third District Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, assists cities with developing urban parks within the county.
Named after its former Parks and Recreation director, Syd Kronenthal Park is the city’s second largest park. Formerly known as McManus Park because of the avenue where it is located, it was renamed in Kronenthal’s honor several years ago.
