In the partially published Crenshaw Subway Coalition v. City of Los Angeles (2022) 75 Cal.App.5th 917, the Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment dismissing the claims of Crenshaw Subway Coalition (Coalition) alleging that the City of Los Angeles and the City Council (collectively, City), represented by the Thomas Law Group on the CEQA claim, had violated the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA), California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and CEQA by approving a mixed-use redevelopment project (Project). In the published portion of the opinion, which is not discussed further in this summary, the Court held that the Coalition’s gentrification-based theory of disparate impacts would require the City to use and consider race in making local planning decisions and was, therefore, not a cognizable legal claim under either the FHA or FEHA. In the unpublished portion of the opinion, the Court concluded that the Coalition’s CEQA claim was untimely.
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