Pressing a legal challenge to a proposed Clippers arena in Inglewood, attorneys for a residents’ group told a judge the city violated the California Surplus Land Act by failing to give first priority to a possible affordable housing development on the property.
A judge ruled a neighborhood group’s petition challenging the Clippers’ plans to build an arena on public property in Inglewood can move forward. On Thursday, April 26, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary H. Strobel found in favor of Uplift Inglewood Coalition in its lawsuit alleging that Inglewood violated the California Surplus Land Act. The law requires cities to give first priority to affordable housing development when selling public land. Uplift Inglewood filed the petition in June 2018, alleging the city did not comply with the law before it entered into formal negotiations to sell over 22 acres of city-owned