Lawsuit Settled
Los Angeles County and City of Industry have settled a 1988 lawsuit challenging the city’s attempt to declare 600 acres of city-owned pastureland a blight on the community in order to declare it a redevelopment zone.
The Board of Supervisors agreed not to challenge the inclusion of the land just north of the Pomona (60) and Orange (57) freeways in a redevelopment zone if the city will forward to the county its full 57% share of property tax on new development. The tax on new construction in a renewal zone usually goes to a city’s redevelopment agency.
Industry projects about 7.2 million square feet of new construction over a 35-year period in the disputed parcel. Industry City Atty. Graham A. Ritchie said that the parcel is exempt from a state law requiring that new redevelopment zones be 80% urban and blighted because it is publicly owned.
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