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Residents and advocates urge Duarte council to postpone Crestfield Townhomes hearing, cite CEQA, Surplus Land and Brown Act concerns

5911256 · September 9, 2025
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Members of a community coalition and individual residents urged the council to delay a Sept. 23 hearing on the Crestfield Townhomes proposal, alleging procedural and substantive legal defects in the planning process and environmental review and warning of potential litigation.

Several residents and community representatives urged the Duarte City Council to postpone an upcoming hearing on the Crestfield Townhomes proposal and to recirculate its environmental review, citing procedural notice and statutory claims and warning of potential litigation.

Travis Patterson, speaking on behalf of neighbors in the Rancho Duarte community, urged the council to vote no on rezoning for the project and said the developer had misled residents about earlier plans for the Rancho Duarte Golf Course and about the nature of the housing now proposed. “This is an apartment complex,” he said,…

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