`BIG BOX' BAN WASN'T THE PLAN : KUNICKI WANTS SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE UP HIS MIND ON RETAIL ZONE.Byline: Enrique Rivero Daily News Staff Writer Sometimes, even city officials can get tied up in red tape. Planning Commissioner Dean Kunicki says he misunderstood mis·un·der·stood v. Past tense and past participle of misunderstand. adj. 1. Incorrectly understood or interpreted. 2. what he was voting for during a meeting last month, so he wants the panel to reconsider re·con·sid·er v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers v.tr. 1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision. 2. the plan that deletes ``big box'' general merchandise stores from the new West End retail zone. Kunicki said he actually opposes barring Wal-Mart and stores like it from the West End Specific Plan but voted to delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. these merchandisers because he thought the wording in the rest of the code allowed them. ``I feel my vote was cast in the wrong way, and I'm probably going to change my vote,'' Kunicki said Monday. ``I misunderstood what I was voting on.'' Kunicki said he will ask for another vote on the measure Wednesday. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the issue March 3. On Jan. 23, Kunicki joined with three other commissioners in voting to recommend that the City Council amend the West End Specific Plan and create a retail zone where a 300,000-square-foot shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into could be built. During the discussion, the commission decided to ban ``big box'' general merchandise stores from the zone because of competition with existing merchants. Only Commissioner Robert Swoish opposed it, saying the zone needed these stores to be viable. The provision was included in the specific plan, which was approved by the commission 3-2, with Richard Kunz and Dave McCormick dissenting dis·sent intr.v. dis·sent·ed, dis·sent·ing, dis·sents 1. To differ in opinion or feeling; disagree. 2. To withhold assent or approval. n. 1. . Kunicki said he thought the ``big box'' vote would allow rather than ban general merchandise stores from the retail zone. ``My understanding was that, by deleting those, we were making it all-inclusive,'' Kunicki said. ``By taking those out and restricting them, you're sort of messing around with the free market system,'' he said. The law allows a commissioner who voted with the majority to reopen re·o·pen tr. & intr.v. re·o·pened, re·o·pen·ing, re·o·pens 1. To open or be opened again: Officials reopened the airport after the snow was cleared. Schools reopen in September. hearings on the issue, he said. Kunz said he was ``somewhat disappointed'' that the issue was returning to the commission. ``I would be curious to know what happened between then and now and why someone would be changing their votes,'' he said. Though Swoish had opposed removing the general merchandisers from the list of uses, he doesn't think a reconsideration re·con·sid·er v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers v.tr. 1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision. 2. will change the majority commission opinion that these stores should be excluded. ``It's still a recommendation to the council, it's their decision, and I'm sure they'll do what's best,'' he said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where it's going.'' |
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