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Caught in a tangle of government permitting rules, the couple has yet to secure approval to break ground.

These revenue streams allowed the nonprofit to break ground on a 48-acre campus in 1941 where it would eventually open a hospital and housing for 250 people under the motto “We take care of our own.”

Many projects on a list of about three dozen “highest priority” upgrades compiled by county officials in 2013 have yet to break ground in communities devastated by the fires.

Darian Wong, a Department of Public Works environmental engineering specialist, said in a November webinar that the county plans to break ground on what is now a $13-million project to build a 1.1-million-gallon water tank and replace “old and undersized water pipe infrastructure” there in summer 2027.

Even among contentious affordable housing proposals, Venice Dell stands out in the intensity of litigation from all sides, confusion over the project’s status and the machinations of Los Angeles politicians determining if it will break ground.