For the second time in a little more than a year, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has refused to lift a 1977 Community Redevelopment Agency spending limit engineered by former Los Angeles City Councilman Ernani Bernardi in his long-running battle against the agency.
The $750-million spending cap in the agency's Central Business District Redevelopment Zone Project Area was the result of a consent decree to settle a 1975 lawsuit brought by Bernardi. By 1993, the CRA was nearing the limit and went to court when Bernardi refused to agree to alter it.
