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City backstrokes on pool rule

SAN DIMAS - More than 18 months into a costly legal fight about where a family can build a pool for their two disabled children, city officials have changed the law that sparked the whole thing.

The City Council voted this week to change a local zoning law that originally prevented Brad and Rebecca Secreto from putting the pool in the spot they wanted, triggering the lengthy battle over a few feet in the pool's proposed width.

"If the Secretos applied for a pool now, they would be able to get approval for a pool," Mayor Curt Morris said Thursday.

Under the new rule, people who live on corner lots can now put pools within five feet of the edge of their side yard, rather than the 10 feet they ...

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