[.....]"No one benefits from continuing their seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot," filmmaker George Lucas said. "The actions initiated by Friends of Parks and their recent attempts to extract concessions from the city have effectively overridden approvals received from numerous democratically elected bodies of government."

The decision to abandon plans for the museum comes after months of heated rhetoric from city officials and leadership of the parks group over the fate of the project. The controversy kicked into high gear during the past week, with city and museum representatives trading public barbs......Continue Reading

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