Assuming they don't get tied up in nonsense from the city council, yes. The judge has denied the attempted stay but the move isn't out of the woods yet.
Another own goal for the LA City Council. May karma come back to be their judge, jury and executioner. The city sure has lost it ..., pretty much like San Francisco has for its zoo. No vision, no guts and no backbone.
It now begs the question what LA Zoo will do with all that acreage of space without a viaible residency. To repurpose ... the zoo also needs money and funding would best serve the Vision Plan they launched after wide birth consultation within the community and was well received by the general public.
The very same Vision Plan which got cut off by Council, and some misconceived perceptions by the Friends of Griffith Park and a few other action groups with either blatant ignorance at best, being a largely NIMBY crowd or have no bloody clue about either zoo management, ex situ conservation nor in situ and or biodiversity conservation at home....
The latter only can work lest the homes of these very same residents be erased to make way for some more naturalised areas within the city grounds and create viable rangelands in close proximity of the city to accommodate the endangered species of California the human impacts and habitations have collectively helped down the drain in decades gone by....
Take note and remember that LA Zoo was to dedicate the front part of the zoo to California. If only the Friends of Griffith Park would have been more informed or have literary or reading skills. It all seems so much just anti gut emotions favored over rationale and real critical thinking.
So sad .... this tale. The worst thing is now LA Zoo itself is in its death throw with itself, fighting its former Zoo Society facilitators and being kept at ransom and under the gun by a very small portion of City Council ... with the rest silently falling in line.
