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Maywood activists oppose LAUSD eminent domain
- 06-17-2010
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By Adolfo Guzman Lopez/KPCC
L.A. Unified wants to buy eight acres in Maywood to build a 1,200 student school. The property near the 5 and 710 freeways is not a vacant lot — more than a hundred homes and eight businesses are there. Parents, most of them Spanish speakers, say the district hasn’t been up front with them — and could build the school elsewhere. Hector Alvarado, of the housing advocacy group Union de Vecinos, is helping area residents oppose the project. "Basically it would be about 300 families. Another important thing is that here in Maywood where elections are won by four to five votes, by removing those residents that would remove about four percent of the registered voters. (more...)
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