Here is a tall story — that isn’t funny to anybody, although there are smiles all around City Hall this afternoon.
The rangy and controversial Entrada Tower project, adjacent to the Radisson Hotel at the southern edge of Culver City, today has been cleared to go forward by a Superior Court ruling.
The Entrada Tower will be built as planned, 12 stories, 120 feet high, atop a parking structure.
A group of residents who organized into United Neighbors of the Westside filed a double-barreled suit last May.
They claimed that the city not only violated its height limit, the structure, in a commercial district, would obstruct the view of nearby residents.
Despite Culver City’s often-debated 56-foot height limit on new buildings, Judge Thomas I. McKnew agreed with City Hall’s contention that the code allowed for exceptions.
Citing the longevity of the code and noting that previous exceptions have been made, Judge McKnew said: “The city’s interpretation of its own municipal code should be accorded great weight, especially if it is long standing.”
He also denied the Neighbors’ second claim about obstruction, ruling that the environmental impact report had satisfactorily analyzed 19 different objectives.
