LA County taking first steps to return Bruce’s Beach property to descendants of original Black owners
April 10, 2021
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is looking to right a wrong in history to return a parcel of land belonging to a Black couple to their descendants after nearly a century.
Transferring portions of the land, which was condemned and seized by the city of Manhattan Beach, will require removing restrictions on the ground, which is now a lifeguard training center, ABC 7 reports.
“I learned very quickly that I just can’t give the property back,” Hahn said in a news conference on Friday. “It came with restrictions, where it limited our ability to sell or transfer this property. So I need state legislation to lift these restrictions and allow the county to transfer this property.”