The Back 9 Zine

THE BACK NINE A PROJECT BY ROSTEN WOO AND LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT RULES & REGULATIONSRULES & REGULATIONS Parties playing together Partieslimited playingto four (4)together players. limited to four (4) players. Each player takes one strokeEach at player a time. takes one stroke at a time. Initial stroke on each holeInitial must stroke be played on each from hole tee mustmat. be played from tee mat. PLAYERS PLAYERS If player’s ball is hit by anotherIf player’s ball, ball new is hitposition by another may ball, new position may be taken unless ball has beenbe taken hit intounless goal. ball . .has in whichbeen hit into goal. in which case you must take old positioncase you and must shoot. take old position and shoot. If ball leaves green, replaceIf ball at spotleaves it wentgreen, out replace and take at spot it went out and take a one stroke penalty. a one stroke penalty. You may move the ball 4You inches may from move any the obstruction ball 4 inches at from any obstruction at no penalty. no penalty. Please leave green immediatelyPlease leave after greenthe last immediately put is made. after the last put is made. PLEASE RETURN YOURPLEASE PENCIL RETURN YOUR PENCIL FOR UPDATES ON SKIDFOR ROW UPDATES AND THE ON DOWNTOWN SKID ROW AND PLAN, THE DOWNTOWN PLAN, WRITE DOWN YOUR CONTACTWRITE DOWN INFORMATION YOUR CONTACT BELOW INFORMATION AND BELOW AND LEAVE CARD WITH ATTENDANT:LEAVE CARD WITH ATTENDANT: ∞ ∞ INSTALLATION PRODUCED BY ROSTENINSTALLATION WOO WITH PRODUCED FABRICATION BY ROSTENBY LEEBUILD WOO •WITH ADDITIONAL FABRICATION BY LEEBUILD • ADDITIONAL DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BY TIFFANIEDESIGN TRAN AND • ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION PRODUCTION BY TIFFANIE AND TRAN ELECTRONICS: • ADDITIONAL RJ PRODUCTION AND ELECTRONICS: RJ SAKAI • ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ANDSAKAI ADVICE: • ADDITIONAL JIAE AZAD, RESEARCHANDREA GIBBONS AND ADVICE: • MURAL JIAE EXPERTISE: AZAD, ANDREA GIBBONS • MURAL EXPERTISE: DIMITRI KADIEV • THANK YOU: JEFF DIMITRICAIN, KRISSY KADIEV CLARK, • THANK JESSICA YOU: JEFFCOWLEY, CAIN, BRYAN KRISSY ECK CLARK, AND TALJESSICA COWLEY, BRYAN ECK AND TAL HARRI OF LADCP, JIA GU & MATERIALSHARRI AND OF APPLICATIONS LADCP, JIA GU AND & MATERIALS KNOWHOWSHOP, AND APPLICATIONS TOM KRACAUER, AND KNOWHOWSHOP, TOM KRACAUER, STEVEN SIMON, LAMP AND LAPD. STEVEN SIMON, LAMP AND LAPD. #BACK9 #BACK9 RULES & REGULATIONSRULES & REGULATIONS Parties playing together Partieslimited playingto four (4)together players. limited to four (4) players. Each player takes one strokeEach at player a time. takes one stroke at a time. Initial stroke on each holeInitial must stroke be played on each from hole tee mustmat. be played from tee mat. PLAYERS PLAYERS If player’s ball is hit by anotherIf player’s ball, ball new is hitposition by another may ball, new position may be taken unless ball has beenbe taken hit intounless goal. ball . .has in whichbeen hit into goal. in which case you must take old positioncase you and must shoot. take old position and shoot. If ball leaves green, replaceIf ball at spotleaves it wentgreen, out replace and take at spot it went out and take a one stroke penalty. a one stroke penalty. You may move the ball 4You inches may from move any the obstruction ball 4 inches at from any obstruction at no penalty. no penalty. Please leave green immediatelyPlease leave after greenthe last immediately put is made. after the last put is made. PLEASE RETURN YOURPLEASE PENCIL RETURN YOUR PENCIL FOR UPDATES ON SKIDFOR ROW UPDATES AND THE ON DOWNTOWN SKID ROW AND PLAN, THE DOWNTOWN PLAN, WRITE DOWN YOUR CONTACTWRITE DOWN INFORMATION YOUR CONTACT BELOW INFORMATION AND BELOW AND LEAVE CARD WITH ATTENDANT:LEAVE CARD WITH ATTENDANT: ∞ ∞ INSTALLATION PRODUCED BY ROSTENINSTALLATION WOO WITH PRODUCED FABRICATION BY ROSTENBY LEEBUILD WOO •WITH ADDITIONAL FABRICATION BY LEEBUILD • ADDITIONAL DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BY TIFFANIEDESIGN TRAN AND • ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION PRODUCTION BY TIFFANIE AND TRAN ELECTRONICS: • ADDITIONAL RJ PRODUCTION AND ELECTRONICS: RJ SAKAI • ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ANDSAKAI ADVICE: • ADDITIONAL JIAE AZAD, RESEARCHANDREA GIBBONS AND ADVICE: • MURAL JIAE EXPERTISE: AZAD, ANDREA GIBBONS • MURAL EXPERTISE: DIMITRI KADIEV • THANK YOU: JEFF DIMITRICAIN, KRISSY KADIEV CLARK, • THANK JESSICA YOU: JEFFCOWLEY, CAIN, BRYAN KRISSY ECK CLARK, AND TALJESSICA COWLEY, BRYAN ECK AND TAL HARRI OF LADCP, JIA GU & MATERIALSHARRI AND OF APPLICATIONS LADCP, JIA GU AND & MATERIALS KNOWHOWSHOP, AND APPLICATIONS TOM KRACAUER, AND KNOWHOWSHOP, TOM KRACAUER, STEVEN SIMON, LAMP AND LAPD. STEVEN SIMON, LAMP AND LAPD. #BACK9 #BACK9 CONTAINING HOLES SKID ROW HOLE In 1973, the city nearly erased Skid Row RULES FOR PLAY from the map. The city had plans to clear Try and get your ball and redevelop the whole area in the way that into Skid Row’s they had done with Bunker Hill. containment zone! In response to this plan, community organizations PAR: 1 developed an alternative plan that preserved the low-income hotels and social services in the 50-block area of Skid Row. This alternative plan carried the day, and this concentration of housing and services became known as the containment zone. This “containment” has allowed Skid Row to maintain its status as a recovery community, preserving afford- able housing and social services for those most in need. This preservation was not achieved through zoning alone, but today’s Skid Row has been protected from redevelopment by the way that it is zoned. Find out how this works by playing through this golf course. ZONING FOR BULK ZONING & RE-ZONING HOLE HOLE AND DENSITY “Zoning” is just the laws that say what you RULES FOR PLAY Another major function of zoning is to con- RULES FOR PLAY can and can’t do with land. These laws have For this hole, you’ll trol the physical shape of an area, how big Try and get your ball big implications for how our cities work, who take the role of real individual parcels of land are, how big the to the hole in the profits from them, who can live here, who estate developer try- buildings on those parcels are, and how densest part of town. can’t. ing to make money. many people can live in those buildings. PAR: 3 One of the main types of zoning restricts uses–what Pick a hole to “buy Controlling bulk and density also has big kinds of activities are allowed in an area. The basic land” that will soon implications for the value of a piece of land, idea is that some activities are incompatible. You don’t be rezoned. The land and who gets to live there. The bigger the lot size and want to sleep next to a cement factory or shop next you buy will soon be the potential building, the pricier the land. When a to a garbage dump. Here are some of the most basic rezoned as “hybrid rezoning allows for more bulk and density people call zones: M (manufacturing) C (commercial) R1 (low- industrial”–meaning it “upzoning,” when it allows for less, people call it density residential) R7 (high-density residential). that light industrial “downzoning.” Of course, the way an area is zoned affects the value uses will be permit- This hole show three aspects of physical of the land. Manufacturing tends to be the cheapest ted but so will other development that L.A.’s zoning code can (and dirtiest). High-density residential land tends uses like housing. control: to be the most expensive –lots of housing = lots of Pick correctly and money. LOT SIZE you’ll be in a good These days, many cities are rezoning–changing their position to make DENSITY zones to reflect new ideas about how the city should money (er, par). BULK / F. A .R. develop. Large parts of Skid Row are currently zoned for industrial uses, but may not be in the future. PAR: 4 THE BIG PICTURE: L.A.’S HOLE AT CAPACITY? HOLE COMMUNITY PLANS In the 1960s L.A. (like many cities in the RULES FOR PLAY In 1960 Los Angeles was zoned to have the RULES FOR PLAY US), turned away from centralized master Get your ball from capacity to house 10 million people. But over Put your ball in the planning and towards decentralized plan- the wealthiest (and the past 60 years, L.A. has on the whole rad- top tube and try to ning–where things like zoning could have least dense) Commu- ically down-zoned (mostly in the wealthiest, get it to the bucket more local control–specifically within the 35 nity Plan Area to one whitest parts of the city). Now L.A. is zoned below the ladder. “community plan areas” shown on this map. of the densest and to hold just under 5 million. least wealthy (Cen- PAR: 1 One of the results of this decentralization is tral City). This has occurred through a mixture of that white, affluent communities Barriers are up • ballot-measures like Proposition U which have tended to “downzone,” while poor between Community dramatically lowered the F.A.R. (see Hole #3) and non-white communities have tended to Plan Areas with sig- of many areas in the city. be “upzoned.” nificant differences Historian Greg Morrow argues that this is largely in median income. • local demand for downzoning led by because communities that have the resources to fight home-owners (see Hole #4). PAR: 6 upzoning, do so. Those that don’t, get upzoned. While Presently, the buildable capacity of the city barely dense areas are good places for developers to make exceeds the actual population. Many planners argue money, L.A.’s wealthy tend to prefer to live in very that L.A.’s rising rents are driven by our limited hous- low-density areas. ing supply, and our housing supply is in turn limited by our zoning. Planners project that L.A.’s population will grow sig- nificantly by 2040 and that L.A.

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