public sidewalks of Vignes Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue at Gateway Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Plant the bare parkway along Link Union Station early works beside Metro headquarters, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles.
A worker kneels in a bare parkway strip beside the Union Station and Metro headquarters build and sets a native plant into the soil with a hand trowel. The strip ends planted, mulched and watered, photographed from both ends. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $80 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofparkway rule, owner's permission cited + strip photographed before, after with GPS ends + plant list with species, counts + sight triangles at driveways shown clear
- Open until2026-11-28
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Plant the bare parkway strip along the Union Station and Metro headquarters build with regionally native low-water plants. The parkway strip between the sidewalk and the curb along Vignes Street between Cesar Chavez Avenue and the US-101 overpass, and Cesar Chavez Avenue at the Gateway Plaza edge is bare dirt for the length of the build, and bare dirt beside a haul route is the dust the whole block breathes. Where the city's parkway rules allow it and with the adjacent owner's written permission, keep the plants under the rules' height, mulch, water it in, and keep every sight triangle at a driveway and a crossing clear. Photograph the strip before and after with GPS points at both ends. For the payer: - Likely payer: A grant-funded nonprofit crew (LA Conservation Corps, LANI, Clean California or CAL FIRE grants), or the site's host. - Public money rule: if a public agency pays for this job, California treats it as public works (Labor Code 1720). On public works over $1,000 every worker is paid at least the state prevailing wage for the craft (Labor Code 1771) and the contractor keeps certified payroll (Labor Code 1776); on a project over $25,000 the contractor must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (Labor Code 1725.5). The crew works under the payer's contractor of record. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-27 Landscaping license.
Offer to pay $80. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Stay outside the build's fence; work the public side. Use hand tools only, never plant taller than the height rule allows or in a sight triangle, and honor an 811 locate below a hand trowel.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: sturdy closed-toe boots for shovel and tool strikes on rough ground; leather-palm gloves for thorns, glass and soil contact.
- Wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
- Heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
- Traffic, Title 8 section 1598: wear a high-visibility vest, jacket or shirt (ANSI/ISEA 107) on any walk or curb edge next to moving traffic, and work from the sidewalk side.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- GPS phone with a camera
- hi-vis vest
- a tree species guide or app
- for the planting: hand trowel and hand fork, regionally native low-water plants from the city's or a native nursery's list, mulch, a watering can or hose access, and the 811 locate ticket if any digging goes below a hand trowel
- the city forestry authority's report line and the adjacent owner's written permission for a parkway
- a hashing tool for the anchor step
Steps
- 1. Walk the perimeter from public ground and give every street tree and every protected tree a GPS point, a whole-tree photo and a species if known. Note whether protection fencing is present and whole, whether the trunk is wrapped, and whether the root zone has been cut, driven over or piled with soil.
- 2. Photograph any damage close (a struck trunk, cut roots, broken limbs, a missing or fallen fence) and file it with the city's forestry authority, one filing per tree, recording the reference number beside the tree in the log.
- 3. For a parkway planting, confirm the city's parkway rule for that street, the adjacent owner's written permission, and an honored 811 locate for any digging below a hand trowel. Mark every driveway and crossing sight triangle and keep it clear.
- 4. Plant the strip with regionally native low-water plants that stay under the rule's height, spaced to their mature size, mulch two to three inches kept off the stems, and water in deeply. Photograph the strip before and after with GPS points at both ends and record its length in feet.
- 5. Publish the log or the planting record with its photos, counts, reference numbers and permissions, and anchor its content hash via vealth.net/anchor. A tree inside a protection fence is documented through the fence and never touched.
What counts as done
- The city's parkway rule cited and the adjacent owner's written permission in hand, with the 811 locate ticket if any digging went below a hand trowel
- The strip photographed before and after with GPS points at both ends and its length in feet
- The plant list with species and counts, each on the regional native list, and the mulch depth
- The watering applied and the sight triangles at every driveway and crossing shown clear
- Sign-off: the site host or steward, or the supervisor of the crew of record, signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
- Care, agreed before you plant: write who waters this planting and for how long (the payer's establishment period; three years is the usual ask), and who replaces a plant that dies. With no named steward, do not plant.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
What is promised, and what is not
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