CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 12, 2001 | JOE MOZINGO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The dry gulch has many faces. Commuters weave down it on the West's oldest freeway. Top engineers converge in its dusty draw to mount America's exploration of space. And on New Year's Day, millions of television viewers enviously admire its stadium, washed in the warm winter sunlight. Yet its overall identity is sketchy, a composite of glimpses blurred in the haze.
NEWS
August 9, 2001 | KENNETH R. WEISS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A significant swath of the largest wetlands on the Los Angeles County coast could be preserved under an agreement signed Wednesday by the developers of the giant Playa Vista project and a national conservation group.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 13, 2001 | OFELIA CASILLAS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Amid both applause and unhappy murmurs from a divided audience, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a city-sponsored report declaring that environmental questions can be solved at the massive Playa Vista project on the Westside. The council's approval brought the proposed development of housing, offices, stores and parkland near Marina del Rey one step closer to acquiring $135 million in city-issued bonds.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 6, 2001 | OFELIA CASILLAS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Environmentalists objected Tuesday to a city report that concludes that potential hazards, such as underground methane gas, could be safely mitigated at the proposed Playa Vista development on the Westside. Despite the protests from a standing-room-only crowd, the Los Angeles City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee recommended the report be considered by the full council next week.
NEWS
May 26, 2001 | JOE MOZINGO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The road to old Los Angeles passes strawberry fields and nurseries and lonely oil pumps creaking in the midday sun. The pavement turns into a sandy trail wending its way to the shade under a bridge, where two teenagers are shooting arrows at carp in the tea-colored river. With plastic bags and brown scum collecting in the reeds, there is nothing pristine about this spot along the Rio Hondo.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 2001 | OFELIA CASILLAS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A U.S. district judge Monday denied a request by environmentalists to stop developers from bulldozing 16.1 acres of wetlands as part of the massive and controversial Playa Vista project south of Marina del Rey. In August, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the federal permit to work on that tract did not violate environmental law. Groups opposed to the Playa Vista development Monday sought an injunction that would have forbidden bulldozing while they petitioned the U.S.