The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

TENTATIVE RULING SHOOTS DOWN CITY COUNCIL’S CONTROVERSIAL APPROVAL IN 2006
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday invalidated the controversial Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Long Beach City Council had approved for a Home Depot and retail project on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands. The tentative ruling ordered that all work on the proposed [...]

A lawsuit against the City of Long Beach over its approval of a Home Depot and retail complex on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands is being heard today in Norwalk Superior Court.
The suit was filed jointly by the University Park Estates Homeowners Association and the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust. It charges that the [...]