A coalition of four neighborhood groups filed a lawsuit against the Pasadena City Council on Thursday seeking to overturn an ordinance that could allow for professional football games at the Rose Bowl.
The Linda Vista – Annandale Assn., San Rafael Neighborhood Assn., Coalition for Preservation of the Arroyo and the East Arroyo Neighborhood Protection Committee filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court.
It alleges that city leaders violated the California Environmental Quality Act in November by extending from 12 to 25 the number of large events allowed at the Rose Bowl if the NFL and the city agree to stage games there for up to five years. It also challenges an environmental study used to consider the ordinance.
The study failed to consider environmental impacts to Arroyo Seco parkland and Brookside Golf Course and “defers and piecemeals the evaluation and mitigation of the foreseeable contracts without providing enforceable performance actions,” the suit alleges.
Consideration of an increase in large Rose Bowl events should have come only after an NFL lease proposal, reads a statement issued Friday by the neighborhood groups.
-- Joe Piasecki, Times Community News
The Linda Vista – Annandale Assn., San Rafael Neighborhood Assn., Coalition for Preservation of the Arroyo and the East Arroyo Neighborhood Protection Committee filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court.
It alleges that city leaders violated the California Environmental Quality Act in November by extending from 12 to 25 the number of large events allowed at the Rose Bowl if the NFL and the city agree to stage games there for up to five years. It also challenges an environmental study used to consider the ordinance.
The study failed to consider environmental impacts to Arroyo Seco parkland and Brookside Golf Course and “defers and piecemeals the evaluation and mitigation of the foreseeable contracts without providing enforceable performance actions,” the suit alleges.
Consideration of an increase in large Rose Bowl events should have come only after an NFL lease proposal, reads a statement issued Friday by the neighborhood groups.
-- Joe Piasecki, Times Community News
Twitter: @JoePiasecki
