West Hollywood : New Boost for Sunset Plan

The West Hollywood City Council gave renewed approval Monday to a major retail and office development proposed on Sunset Boulevard, in hopes of breaking a legal logjam that stalled the project more than a year ago.

Plans for the 125,000-square-foot complex proposed by Raleigh Enterprises are unchanged, but they now include an expanded review of likely environmental effects on the neighborhood near Sunset and Alta Loma Road.

In October, 1992, a Superior Court judge invalidated the city’s earlier approval, siding with neighbors who said the project was too big and that an environmental review failed to adequately consider air pollution.

The additional review and new approval are meant to clear the way for the project, one of only a few major developments proposed on the Sunset Strip in three decades.

But the neighbors group, Residents Opposing Aggressive Redevelopment, said the additional environmental report still fails to address their worries that the project is too big and will worsen traffic and block views.

ROAR president William Edwards said Wednesday that the group will continue to fight the project in court.