Amid fears about Hollywood’s future, L.A. approves $1-billion Television City project
LA TimesFor the past two and a half years, the battle for the future of L.A.’s Fairfax Avenue corridor has been raging between economic powerhouses. Los Angeles City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky speaks Tuesday in support of the $1-billion TVC project, which would expand and redevelop the old CBS Television City site at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. Shelley Wagers, co-chair of Neighbors for a Responsible TVC Development, said the developer provided “minimal concessions” to the nine businesses and community groups that filed challenges to the planning commission’s approval of the project. Hackman fired back last spring, filing a complaint with the city Ethics Commission that called the Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance a “shell funded by private commercial interests.” In a letter to the commission, Hackman attorney Jim Sutton said the public deserved to know whether the alliance and its affiliated groups are “merely a ‘front’ for private commercial interests.” Jason Kaune, an attorney for the Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance, said in an email that his client has complied with the city’s ethics rules, disclosing its spending on a quarterly basis. Wagers, who co-chairs the neighbors organization, pushed back on the criticism from Hackman, saying she and her neighbors are acting out of concern for the Beverly Fairfax community — and are “not on anyone’s payroll.” She accused the developer of using concerns about film production to push through a project that is “wildly out of scale and out of character” with the neighborhood.
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