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Auto dealer victory.


Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  auto dealers won a victory earlier this month when the City Council voted to exempt new car dealership This article is about car dealerships. For the indie pop band, see Dealership (band).

A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new cars and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or
 franchises from a proposed Planning Department regulation that imposes a set of new development standards and conditions on automotive operations within certain commercial zones.

Auto dealers--particularly Keyes Motor Group, Galpin Motors, the Miller Automotive Group and the Shammas Automotive Group--led the charge against the ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation.

An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been
, claiming that it would deter new dealerships from opening within the city, thereby depriving the city of tax revenues. They had an ally in L.A. City Councilman Bernard Ber·nard , Claude 1813-1878.

French physiologist noted for his study of the digestive and nervous systems.
 Parks, who has frequently sided with business interests.

On Nov. 1, the council ordered the city attorney to exempt new car dealerships from the ordinance, which should be ready for council action early next year.
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Title Annotation:REGULATION WATCH
Author:Fine, Howard
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Date:Nov 13, 2006
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