Among the 200 proposed projects are building several new parks, pedestrian walkways and bridges. Other projects include rezoning areas adjacent to the riverbed for housing. One extreme proposal included knocking down one of the concrete walls that contains the river to both expand the channel and make it look more natural, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is studying.

Ed Reyes, a councilman representing northeast Los Angeles and a chairman of the council’s river committee, said, “this is now a real mandate that declares the river is a real river and we’re going to give it life and support the way it supported us when Los Angeles was first started.?EUR??,,????'??

Nancy Steele, executive director of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, called the plan ?EUR??,,????'??incredibly visionary?EUR??,,????'?? but that ?EUR??,,????'??the key is going to be implementation.?EUR??,,????'?? She described that the city and region have a history of completing restoration plans without actually implementing them.

Councilman Richard Alarcon who represents the northeast San Fernando Valley, voted for the plan but threatened to withhold support unless studies are conducted to include parks along tributaries in his district. Currently, the plan doesn?EUR??,,????'???t include any tributaries. “In the Valley” the river “goes through all the rich communities,” Alarcon said.