The litigation has been thick and relentless, but developer and one-time mayoral candidate Steve Soboroff must be chortling over this one:
An L.A. Superior Court judge today ruled in favor of the city's approval of building stores, parks and 2,600 more apartments at Playa Vista.
Playa Vista foes and the City of Santa Monica apparently had sued, alleging that the city had approved an inadequate environmental impact report for a development phase known as "The Village" in one of the last big developable chunks of coast-adjacent land in L.A. County ...
The Playa Vista press release has general counsel Patti Sinclair predicting,
"We expect our opponents to appeal, and we are certainly prepared to defend this case at the next level,"
Meanwhile, no indication of whether PV's lawyers have appealed a state court's decision in October to shoot down their plans for mitigating explosive methane that permeates the ground beneath parts of the site.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 09:19 PM
