AGOURA HILLS: BIG-BOX STORE BAN IS FAILING.Byline: - Cecilia Ce·cil·ia , Saint Third century a.d. Christian martyr traditionally regarded as the patron saint of music. Chan A grass-roots effort to block big-box development in Agoura Hills fell behind in early returns Tuesday. Passage of Measure H would prevent the city from approving projects of more than 60,000 square feet. Only another vote of the people could amend or repeal The Annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law. The revocation of the law can either be done through an express repeal the measure. Citizens for Responsible Growth circulated petitions and qualified the measure for the ballot after Selleck Development proposed a 140,000- square-foot Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box on 24 acres along Agoura Road. Selleck proposes that the Home Depot would be the first of two phases of a 255,309-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 planned on the site near the landmark Ladyface Mountain. It would be the first ``big-box'' store in the city of 20,537 people. The City Council denounced the measure as a threat to future city sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. dollars - a major revenue source for Agoura Hills' budget - and if passed would invite lawsuits. The group, Taxpayers Opposing Special Treatment, No On Measure H, also formed to defeat the measure. < The group, which has received funding from Home Depot and Selleck, said the measure would take the authority out of the hands of elected officials. |
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