This flag design was proposed by Ricardo Tomasz. It is designed to represent Los Angeles, and the fault lines that define the landscape. It incorporates the existing city flag colors, but rearranges them for important iconography. The red triangles represent 5 of the major fault lines in Los Angeles, including the Raymond Fault, the Newport-Inglewood Fault, the Hollywood Fault, the Northridge Fault, and the Santa Monica Fault.

The Newport–Inglewood Fault Zone

This fault zone is the most notable feature within the basin that is a single strand with local (fault) splays.^[10] The fault zone is also marked by low hills, scarps, and ten anticlinal folds in a right-stepping en echelon pattern.^[17] It is located in the southwest portion of the basin and is a strike-slip margin. There are several oil fields that run parallel to this fault.

San Gabriel Valley area

The eastern end of the Raymond Fault branches from the San Andreas Fault in the San Gabriel Mountains where it forms the east fork of the San Gabriel River and Monrovia Canyon. The fault is very straight and follows a WbS path. It then goes straight west through Arcadia and the Santa Anita Racetrack in the San Gabriel Valley, and then forms the San Rafael Hills in San Marino and South Pasadena, and Raymond Hill after which the fault is named.

Los Angeles–Ventura areas

The fault continues west to form the hills of Highland Park, the lower eastern Santa Monica Mountains from Dodger Stadium, Silver Lake, and Griffith Park through the Hollywood Hillsabove the Sunset Strip and Studio City. Further west the Raymond Fault creates the higher central and western Santa Monica Mountains from Beverly Hills and along the southern San Fernando Valley to Thousand Oaks and Malibu, and on to Point Mugu at the Pacific Ocean. The fault then continues underwater to form the northern California Channel Islands, and beyond to where it terminates.

Why Flags Matter

Why Los Angeles Needs A New Flag

As was stated in the recent online petition:

There is no doubt that we are one of the greatest, most influential cities in the world. Wired Magazine recently named us the “#1 City of Tomorrow,” and even the New York Times admitted, “Los Angeles is enjoying a renaissance with a burgeoning art, fashion and food scene that has become irresistible to the culturally attuned.” But the one thing we’re missing, the one thing every great city deserves, is a great flag. Our current flag is neither recognizable, nor symbolic, nor representative of us, as a city or as Angelenos. Most people don’t even know it, and because they don’t know it, they don’t fly it.

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