Los Angeles can move forward with plans to open a homeless shelter in Venice after a L.A. County Superior Court judge rejected a legal challenge to the project. Beckloff said at the October hearing that the law seemed to be “tailor made” for the Venice shelter, which had spurred litigation before AB 1197 passed. In a tentative decision this week, the judge found that the state law exempted the Venice shelter from environmental review and rejected arguments that AB 1197 was invalid. The decision comes a week after another Superior Court judge concluded that AB 1197 rendered a lawsuit by another Venice group moot. AB 1197 deemed those ordinances exempt from CEQA, which was a core part of the legal challenge.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 13, 2019 21:56 UTC