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crafts
climate
message
Legislation would
slash greenhouse-gas
emissions and bolster
Gov. Jerry Browns
calls for global action.

By Chris Megerian

SACRAMENTO When
Gov. Jerry Brown visits the
Vatican this week for an
international conference,
hell be carrying a resolution
from state lawmakers sup-
porting Pope Francis recent
Photographs by Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times
encyclical on climate
FAMILIES SETTLE IN for a showing of a movie in View Park, an affluent unincorporated area that is 84% African American. change.
Hes hoping the Legisla-

PLACE OF THEIR OWN

ture will send an even
stronger message later this
year by passing new environ-
mental rules aimed at help-
ing California slash green-
house-gas emissions over
the next few decades.
Approval of the legisla-

Black Beverly Hills fears historic status might bring white influx
tion, intended to enact goals
outlined by the governor this
year, would bolster Browns
calls for global action on cli-
as an accolade an effort to put mate change with a display
By Angel Jennings View Park on the National Register of regulatory muscle in his
of Historic Places has blown up own state.
Longtime residents of View into a particularly contentious Oil companies have
Park have a thinly veiled code for fight. ramped up opposition, and
the signs of change they see in their Some residents covet this honor utilities are angling for
upscale neighborhood: joggers ... for a community whose proud past changes in the bill that
dog walkers. is part of what makes it feel like [See Climate, B5]
Its like an alien sighting, says home.
Karen Martin, who grew up in this Others fear that the designation
hilltop community framed by La is a ploy to lure in white buyers who

States
Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boule- can no longer afford to turn up their
vard. We never saw them before. noses at black neighborhoods now
But now they are back. White that Westside real estate has gone
people. With fluffy dogs. And fluo- through the roof.

donors
rescent Spandex. And for some Tammy Williams, for example,
longtime residents who cherish practically radiates community
View Park as a symbol of African pride but opposes the historic

favor
American success and a stronghold designation.
of black culture, thats unsettling. She graduated from Cal State
Residents of View Park, with its Dominguez, married into a monied
curving, palm-lined streets, stun- family, bought a starter home and,

ning views and movie-star-quality
homes, have for decades fought any
proposal that they thought threat-
ened their neighborhoods special
qualities including its solid sense
of African American identity.
Now a move that strikes many
Clinton
in 2003, finally worked her way up to
an area some call the Black Bever-
ly Hills.
When she moved into her 4,000-
VIEW PARK offers stunning views of downtown. Some say the square-foot Mid-century Modern
drive to list it on the National Register is a ploy to attract a new on a spacious corner lot, the woman
and largely white crop of buyers to the areas historic homes. [See View Park, B5] By Kurtis Lee
and Sahil Chinoy

California donors have

Storms aid battle against wildfires

Firefighters dampen
blazes in Cajon Pass
and Angeles National
Forest as unusual rain
system moves in.
By Javier Panzar,
Sarah Parvini
and Bettina Boxall
Scattered thunder-
storms and showers Satur-
day knocked out power for
thousands, closed Los Ange-
les County beaches and put
a damper on the North fire in
the Cajon Pass.
By Saturday afternoon,
the 3,500-acre wildfire that
had shut down Interstate 15
and sent motorists fleeing
on foot Friday had been
stopped in its tracks by
moisture streaming north
from a tropical storm off
Baja California. The fire was
45% contained.
Its just creeping around
now, said U.S. Forest Serv-
ice spokeswoman Carol
Underhill. It definitely
stopped its big movement.
Fueled by chaparral and
grass and fanned by high
winds, the blaze spread onto
the southbound lanes of the
busy freeway Friday after-
noon. Panicked travelers
abandoned their vehicles
and ran into the hills.
Twenty vehicles, includ-
ing two tractor-trailers, were
destroyed. But miracu-
lously, authorities said, no
injuries were reported. All
lanes of the I-15, the major
route between Southern
California and Las Vegas,
were reopened by Saturday
afternoon.
The unusual summer
[See Fires, B6]
provided strong backing to
several candidates in the
crowded field of Republican
presidential hopefuls, al-
though none have come
close to the cash pile
amassed here by Demo-
cratic front-runner Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
Florida Sen. Marco Ru-
bio, former Texas Gov. Rick
Perry and former Hewlett-
Packard Chief Executive
Carly Fiorina raised signifi-
cant chunks of their fund-
raising totals from donors
dotting Orange County, the
Central Valley and other tra-
ditionally Republican areas,
according to fundraising re-
ports the campaigns re-
leased this week.
California has long bank-
rolled presidential cam-
paigns, and 2016 is shaping
up to be no different.
The states money has
[See Funding, B10]
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times Steve Lopez
THE NORTH FIRE, which temporarily shut down Interstate 15 in the Cajon His column does not
Pass and destroyed vehicles, was 45% contained after scattered storms Saturday. appear today.