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Court upholds Laguna Beach decision to stop treating 1980s "historic inventory" as presumptive resource

2866760 · April 3, 2025
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A court found a lawsuit challenging Laguna Beach's 2020 change to its historic resource policy lacked merit, Mayor Alex Munaghi said, vindicating the city's move to stop treating an owner-unconsented 1980s inventory as a CEQA-level historic resource.

A court recently found a lawsuit challenging Laguna Beach’s removal of an owner-unconsented 1980s “historic inventory” from presumptive historic-resource treatment lacked merit, Mayor Alex Munaghi said on Fair Game Laguna Beach.

Munaghi said the city’s 2020 amendment to its historic resource element and related ordinance removed the inventory’s automatic status under the California Environmental Quality Act and shifted preservation to voluntary mechanisms. “This inventory...should no longer be treated as a presumed historic resource because it's…

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