Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California Development

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, april 22 developments [Climate-Change-Related Lawsuit Nixes Huge California Development]( Not in my backyard, says Planet Earth, backed by a judge. Photo: Design Pics/Jack Goldfarb/Getty Images When you’re driving north from Los Angeles, just before the 5 Freeway drops into the Central Valley, the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch property is clearly visible to the east — miles of rippling grasslands that bleach to a crisp golden-blond in summer. For decades, the owners of this property, which straddles Los Angeles and Kern counties, have attempted to build a residential development 70 miles from downtown Los Angeles: a 6,000-acre, 20,000-home master-planned community named Centennial. Earlier this month, however, an L.A. County judge essentially blocked the development after a lawsuit challenged the developer’s environmental-impact report, claiming it didn’t accurately consider wildfire risk or greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the ruling doesn’t stop the development outright, it will make it significantly harder for the project to move forward without major changes, says Bryn Lindblad, deputy director of the nonprofit Climate Resolve, which filed the lawsuit. “It’s a chance for Tejon Ranch to take pause, to do some existential soul-searching, and decide which side of history they want to be on.” [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [A Fort Greene One-Bedroom for $575k and a Few Two-Bedrooms With Private Rooftops Almost all of this week’s picks have private outdoor spaces.]( By Jenny Xie [My Favorite Design Book: Bruno Munari’s A Flower With Love Fleurotica founder Robin Rose Hilleary goes back to this 1973 out-of-print volume again and again.]( As told to Camille Okhio [MoMA’s ‘Reconstructions’ Show Changed My Relationship to Space and Cities Should Black designers revise a history that erased them? Or should they revolt?]( By Kimberly Drew [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing [My Week in New York](: a brand-new newsletter from the editors. [Sign up]( to get the first edition this Saturday. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved