City Council Delays Vote on Buying Fryman Canyon
The Los Angeles City Council delayed a vote Tuesday on a proposal to spend $1.96 million to help buy Fryman Canyon in Studio City for parkland after Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky expressed concern that the high price might jeopardize other park acquisitions.
Yaroslavsky said there are two possible park site purchases in his Westside district--one near Fossil Ridge and the other in Benedict Canyon--that might be aborted by buying Fryman Canyon.
The decision to delay a vote came on the recommendation of Councilman Michael Woo, whose district includes the steep and heavily wooded canyon where property owner Fred Sahadi has proposed building 26 luxury houses.
Woo said there is no need to allocate the money as long as the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, a state park agency, is still studying whether to participate in a plan devised by Woo and Mayor Tom Bradley to buy the 63-acre canyon for $10.9 million.
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