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Malibu Surfside News: Application to Demolish Point Home Is Withdrawn, Neighbor Dispute Reaches an Accord
A New York couple, who stirred up a storm when they proposed tearing down a Bart Prince-designed home on Grayfox Street, has reached an agreement with their Point Dume neighbors to not demolish the architectural residence, but instead do an interior remodel, according to city planning officials.
LA Times: Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
Los Angeles Times journalist, Martha Groves, covers the fight to stop a New York hedge fund manager’s proposal to destroy the Bart Prince Lever/Morgenthaler house on Point Dume in Malibu. At stake is more than the extraordinary Bart Prince home which modernists and others consider art, approval of the project would set a destructive view…
Curbed LA: Celebs vs. Hedge Funder in Bart Prince Demo Fight in Malibu
https://la.curbed.com/2012/1/3/10411608/celebs-vs-hedge-funder-in-bart-prince-demo-fight-in-malibu
LA Weekly: Playa Vista Quicksand
“It’s a very thorough, well-supported opinion,” says Frank P. Angel, a highly regarded Santa Monica–based environmental lawyer, who is not involved in the case. “It requires definite measures that need to be followed up.” Angel believes construction will be delayed several months, at a minimum, to fix the environmental-impact report and then guide it through…
Sierra Club Press Release: Sierra Club Lawsuit Challenges Irvine Company’s Flawed Development Plans for Hills East of Orange
A lawsuit against billionaire Donald Bren’s Irvine Company and City of Orange challenging a proposed six-mile long housing project in the hills east of Orange was filed today by the Sierra Club’s Orange Hills Task Force.