CrossFit Horsepower sues Hermosa Beach
CrossFit Horsepower partners Dan Wells and Jed Sanford in 2014. Photo by Ryah Cooley Crossfit Horsepower, the embattled Cypress Avenue gym that was declared a public nuisance by Hermosa Beach over the summer, has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that the nuisance proceedings have irredeemably damaged the gym’s business and were the result of bias on the part of the City Council. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court earlier this month, asks a judge to set aside the city’s decision this summer that Horsepower is a nuisance, and to compensate the gym’s owners for the lost value of the business, as well as attorney’s fees and litigation costs. Although it does not set a figure for the total value lost, the complaint states that the business was once worth at least $1.3 million, but that demands from the city had made it “unsustainable.” Not long after the gym opened in 2014, residents living nearby began complaining about noise and vibrations associated with its operations, including loud music and the vibrations associated with dropping weights. In a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Jeff Duclos said that the city was “deeply disappointed” that…
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