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Friday, November 15, 2024

♫Take Us Out of the Ball Game♫ - Part 7 (parking)

From the LA Times: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an emergency stay stopping work on the installation of more than 100 units of modular housing on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles campus. The stay blocks purchase of the modular units and prohibits a development team assembled by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter from accessing three parking lots on the 388-acre campus to begin the site preparation.

After a four-week trial in August, Carter ordered the VA to produce 1,800 new supportive housing units on the campus and 750 temporary housing units. His ruling also invalidated leases of VA property, including to UCLA and Brentwood School, and ordered the VA to increase its outreach staff. He subsequently backed off that number of temporary units, while issuing an emergency order to immediately build up to 200, including 32 on the parking lot of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson baseball stadium...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-11/u-s-appeals-court-stops-work-on-modular-shelters-on-the-vas-west-los-angeles-campus.

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