Local News in Brief : View-Protection Bid Stalls
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The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council has decided not to include a view-protection initiative on the November ballot and postponed until September a decision on when to schedule it.
Mayor Robert E. Ryan said he feared the measure would be “totally lost in the presidential election” if it were on the November ballot.
More than 10% of the city’s registered voters signed a petition favoring the initiative, which would amend the current height ordinance that sets the maximum height of structures at 30 feet. The new measure would set 24 feet as the maximum.
Under state law, the council can adopt the initiative as an ordinance or put it on a ballot no later than November, 1989, the next scheduled municipal election. The council ruled out adopting the initiative earlier this year after City Atty. Steve Dorsey said that it was unconstitutional and unenforceable.
It will cost the city from $17,000 to $35,000 to include the measure on one of the four election ballots scheduled between next November and November, 1989.
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