Archive for April 2017

Opponents of Preservation Rules Solidify Resistance

Laguna Beach Independent April 19, 2017 Opponents of Preservation Rules Solidify Resistance BY CASSANDRA REINHART, SPECIAL TO THE INDEPENDENT The flags atop the design review story poles still standing at 31987 Coast Highway are as faded as Hany Dimitri’s enthusiasm for the $6.3 million property. “I have paid hundreds of thousands to do this. They…

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Planners Step Away from Tighter Historic Rules

Planners Step Away from Tighter Historic Rules BY CASSANDRA REINHART, SPECIAL TO THE INDEPENDENT Members of the Laguna Beach Planning Commission are questioning the benefit of keeping so-called C-rated properties on the city’s 1981 historic inventory, and some questioned keeping the inventory at all. Debate over new revisions to the city’s historic preservation ordinance stretched…

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