Second suit over density bonus

A coalition of Los Angeles homeowner groups has filed the second lawsuit in the past two weeks challenging a recently adopted city rule that allows developers to build taller, bulkier buildings if they include affordable units. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

The case filed by the Environment And Housing Coalition Los Angeles - a group made up of 17 homeowners associations from the Westside, Valley and Mid-City areas - also relies on a legal strategy proposed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's top planning appointee to fight the adopted density-bonus ordinance.

Last month, city Planning Commission President Jane Ellison Usher sent an e-mail to community groups, laying out a legal strategy to fight the ordinance and urging them to move swiftly in filing suit.