LA City Council rejects 5,500-home Las Lomas project

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Here’s a surprising piece of news -- The city of Los Angeles has actually found a housing development it doesn’t like. True, the City Council had to go outside city limits to find a development it wouldn’t rubber stamp, but it did: ‘A divided Los Angeles City Council voted today to halt its review of the 5,553-home project known as Las Lomas, dealing a devastating blow to the company that had spent six years trying to get a hearing for the mega-development planned for north Los Angeles County.

More: ‘In a sign that even Los Angeles has limits on the amount of growth it will approve, the council voted 10 to 5 to instruct the Planning Department to stop processing the application submitted in 2002 by the Las Lomas Land Co.’

Proof that I will never understand Los Angeles politics: I am so naive that I thought it was weird the City Council was even discussing a development that is not inside the city limits. Where I come from, local governments generally concern themselves with issues within their borders. But as I say, the realities of L.A. politics are lost on me.

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