The application to designate Griffith Park a Historic-Cultural Monument passed the City Council on a 15-0 vote on January 27th, 2009. This is a great victory for Griffith Park and those who love it! Historic-Cultural Monument status will help preserve Griffith Park as a wilderness park, free from development, and open to all.

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Background for why this group was created: Griffith Park is a 4,218-acre public park. Most of the park is chaparral wilderness of rocky hills, canyons and gullies with large portions of open, rugged natural landscape. In 2005, a Master Plan draft was presented to the City that was a blueprint for developing the Park. Some of the proposals included multi-level parking structures, aerial tramways, a hotel, destination restaurants and other projects that would radically change this great Urban Wilderness.

In response to this threat, in May, 2008 the Griffith J. Griffith Charitable Trust filed an application with the City of Los Angeles to designate Griffith Park as a Historical-Cultural site. With City Council approval, Griffith Park joins New York’s Central Park, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, San Diego’s Balboa Park, and Washington’s Rock Creek Park (among others) as parks with historical designations. Designation recognizes the site (including existing structures, landscape, plant life, hiking trails, and other existing features) as important to the history of Los Angeles, and provides an important level of oversight to any changes proposed for the Park.

This Griffith Park group was organized to help obtain Historic-Cultural Monument status for the Park, and is dedicated to keeping Griffith Park the great undeveloped Urban Wilderness that it is today.

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