Residents of La Canada Flintridge may have tired of the chain-link fence surrounding the former Christian Science Church on the town’s main drag, Foothill Boulevard, and of the seasonal — here come the holidays — pumpkin patch and Christmas tree lot that the otherwise disused property sports among the increasingly fancy restaurants and high-end grocery stores in the neighborhood.

But there’s an easy remedy for that — one that the City Council has literally been ordered by California’s attorney general to undertake.

And yet the council continues to painfully slow-walk the permit approvals it has been ordered to make for an attractive, design-appropriate, much-needed multi-family residential building with 80 units and 16 hotel rooms for visiting cousins and JPL visitors alike.

After much

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