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November 16, 2023

Land lease program faces scrutiny after LA freeway fire

  • The land under the freeway was leased to businesses that deal in everything from wood pallets to cardboard boxes.
    • By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN
    Associated Press

    LOS ANGELES — The area under an elevated Los Angeles freeway that burned last weekend, damaging a section of a key thoroughfare in the car-dependent city, was stacked with flammable materials on lots leased by the state through a little-known program that now is under scrutiny.

    The blaze Saturday burned about 100 support columns, forcing the closure of a vital mile-long stretch of Interstate 10 near downtown that is used by hundreds of thousands of people daily.


     
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