Local News in Brief : Court Ruling Stalls Project at Airport
A huge office complex planned for land at Santa Monica Airport--already the target of protest from homeowners and Los Angeles officials--has been stalled by a court ruling that changes the way environmental impact reports are written.
Santa Monica officials said Thursday that it will take several months to draft an additional environmental impact report for the proposed 1.4-million-square-foot office complex. The new report must examine alternative uses for the land, a 37.5-acre parcel south of the airport and bordering Los Angeles.
The decision comes in the wake of a ruling Dec. 1 by the state Supreme Court that a public agency must disclose all potential effects of a project as well as alternative uses of the property. The case involved efforts by the University of California to build a biomedical research lab in a San Francisco neighborhood.
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