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Government

Mar. 24, 2007

In Historical Preservation, L.A. Misses the Mark

Forum Column - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - A Superior Court judge got it all wrong in ruling that a historic-preservation ordinance should be set aside.

FORUM COLUMN

By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu
     
      A recent Los Angeles County Superior Court ruling hit close to home, literally, because it involves the neighborhood where I live, Windsor Square. Judge Dzintra Janavs ordered the city to set aside and vacate a newly established ordinance deeming Windsor Square a historic-preservation-overlay zone. No HPOZ Alliance v. City of Los Angeles, BS09348...

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