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Article: 'Mixed' message received: Culver City zoning code sets rules on residential-commercial projects that should increase housing options.(COMMENTARY)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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TEN years ago, the Redevelopment Agency of Culver City decided it needed a catalytic project to shake the city's reputation as a "place to drive by on your way to somewhere else." A bold project was proposed that included movie theaters, a Trader Joe's, retail shops, offices and public parking.
The neighbors did not like what they saw. "The proposed project is way too big and completely out of scale with the neighborhood," some said. "The amount of traffic and congestion is of grave concern to us." To anyone familiar with recent Culver City land-use politics, this is familiar. The twist is that the project that caused the uproar is not a proposed project but ...