Beware the burger? City committee backs proposal to curb new fast-food eateries in South L.A.
How do you define fast food? Do you just know it when you see it? A Los Angeles City Council committee has recommended a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in parts of South Los Angeles, citing health issues. Councilwoman Jan Perry also is trying to encourage supermarkets and sit-down restaurants to move into these areas. Restaurant lobbyists originally opposed the move, which would need the approval of the full council and the mayor, but are now working with the city to address their concerns. Among the issues up for discussion: What is fast food? How do you define it without ensnaring other businesses as well? Read more by Times staff writer Molly Hennessy-Fiske. Does this proposed moratorium go too far? Or not far enough?
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I am a little tired of our governments, local or federal, wasting their time and our money on idiotic initiatives like this, or like banning plastic bags, or even helping out cretins who thought they could get away with living beyond their means and never get caught.
Posted by: Laurent | July 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM
How can they ban a business? People this is AMERICA! We have the right to open watever business we want wherever we want. This is very unconstitutional...
Posted by: SAMI J | July 23, 2008 at 04:39 PM
'The measure,..., defines a fast-food restaurant as "any establishment which dispenses food for consumption on or off the premises, and which has the following characteristics: a limited menu, items prepared in advance or prepared or heated quickly, no table orders and food served in disposable wrapping or containers."'
Starbucks, anyone? Sandy Banks wrote yesterday that people were disappointed that Starbucks was leaving South LA. Now they will be banned.
Posted by: bkl | July 23, 2008 at 01:54 PM