A small farm with a big history dating back to World War II sits on the Rancho Palos Verdes peninsula. But now, the city is voting whether to shut it down, and use the land for something else.
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to return a valuable parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who once operated a beach resort there.
"When the Palos Verdes Project was out here in 1913, they noted that there were Japanese farmers and that there was agriculture on the peninsula," said Sugimoto. "Allowed the Japanese farmers to farm the land, and work on the land as long as it wasn't needed for development," Sugimoto explained. "But when it was needed for development then they would actually have to move off the property."
As Hatano walked around his father's tractor, he contemplated fixing it. It's a tough decision. Much like the city is faced with. Do you preserve the past, or is it time to turn the page and do something else with this valuable land?