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We are slowly emerging from the pandemic, and it sure looks like there are a lot of things that need fixing. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news.
The Echo Park shutdown
Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to
Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling the park at regular intervals as well as parked along the lake’s north end.
Nonprofit creates Orange County s first digital map of historic places
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Laguna Beach Local News
By Justine Amodeo | Special to the Laguna Beach Independent
Alleging that the City of Laguna Beach violated the California Environmental Quality Act, a citizen-enforced statute, when it amended its Historic Preservation Program last summer, The Laguna Beach Historic Preservation Coalition, Preserve Orange County and Village Laguna filed a public interest lawsuit In Orange County Superior Court on Jan. 11.
Claiming that the City Council’s actions “were both short-sighted and unlawful,” the suit claims the CEQA protects the historic “built” environment to the same extent as the state’s natural resources such as air, water, and forests and that “as a matter of law, CEQA projects that substantially impact historic resources will have significant environmental impacts.”