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Council amends Adams La Brea redevelopment status report to bar condemnation without council approval

Los Angeles City Council · March 6, 2026
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Summary

After a Community Redevelopment Agency status report on the Adams La Brea proposal (affecting roughly 63 parcels and about 77 residential units and 20 businesses), the council approved an amendment instructing the CRA that no condemnation take place without explicit city council approval.

The Los Angeles City Council on a May 1999 docket heard a status report from the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) on the Adams La Brea commercial redevelopment project and voted to amend the staff item to require that any condemnation under the project return to the council for specific approval.

Roy Willis, deputy administrator for the CRA, summarized the project’s scope and said staff had an exclusive right to negotiate with the Adams La Brea development partnership; he told the council the project could affect roughly 63 parcels, approximately…

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