The purchase of a series of parcels along the Stocker Corridor has set the stage for improving community access to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. The future connection of this mile-long corridor to the expanding state park, L.A. County's Ingoll Walking Park, and Windsor Elementary School will provide the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, View Park, Windsor Hills, Crenshaw, and Leimert Park a much-needed link to the region's largest park and natural amenity. In 2000, $4 million in Proposition 12 funds were earmarked for the Stocker Corridor project via legislation by Sen. Kevin Murray and supported by Speaker Herb Wesson and the Davis Administration.

The Stocker Corridor is a mile-long series of parcels that has remained as natural open space through the efforts of community members in the surrounding neighborhoods of View Park, Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills Estates and Ladera. With the support of Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, community members have successfully protected the area from 

development, which has included proposals ranging from apartment complexes to pawn shops. The purchase of these parcels has been the culmination of community, local and state agency efforts to preserve the corridor and retain the natural characteristics of the Baldwin Hills area.