The West L.A. Planning Commission on October 3 granted a second continuance on the appeal hearing regarding the Coastal Development Permit for the proposed Sunset Canyon apartment complex’this time to January 16, 2013. Developer Stefano Coaloa’s 49-unit apartment complex, which would be located just east of the Self-Realization Fellowship temple at 17030 Sunset Blvd., has been strongly opposed by the Edgewater Towers Homeowners Association over concerns that the project is situated in a known landslide area.   The extensive Edgewater complex is located off Sunset, below and to the west of the Coaloa apartments. John Murdock, an attorney representing the Edgewater association, made a statement during the meeting ‘asking the Commission to require Coaloa to submit an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to clarify all the issues involved in this project,’ according to Amy C. Greenwood, a Marquez Knolls resident and appellant in the case Greenwood said in a report to the Marquez Knolls Property Association that the Commission was asked to make a decision on the EIR requirement on October 3. However, she stated, ‘the Commission felt they could not discuss the question of requiring an EIR until the new continuance expires.’ The Edgewater Association hired an outside firm, GeoSoils, to study the project and has publicly stated concerns over the stability of Coaloa’s design in terms of preventing a landslide. The developers have argued that their own geotechnical engineers have extensively studied the area and maintain the development’s stability.
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