The first five homes in the project were under construction when, in 2002, the L.A. Planning Commission placed a six-month moratorium on the project pending an environmental impact assessment to be drafted by the property developers. The impact assessment did not happen, the city attorney alleged in a 2021 statement, and the city ordered the homes demolished in 2003, according to news reports at the time.
The timeline and scope for doing the service development plans may seem larger than people are used to or comfortable with, but that is intentionalâso that we are doing a lot of the good iterative planning that we need to do in engaging the host railroads.
