CITY SETTLES THE FATE OF DISPUTED CORNER.Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer A drive-through pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. and child-care center will occupy a highly visible and much debated Peach Hill corner, the city has decided. The council voted 3-2 Wednesday night to approve Marketplace Partners plan for a Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. Drug Store and child-care facility on a 4.5-acre parcel at the corner of Tierra Rejada Road and Spring Road. The vote comes after developers' plans for a gas station at the site were derailed after a community campaign whose slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. was ``Gas and Kids Don't Mix.'' The developer first proposed a gas station in 1987, and in 1989 after community opposition, he agreed to a plan for a mini-mall. Those plans were also scaled back from a 16-store mini-mall, to the two tenants now proposed: the pharmacy and the child-care center. The plan approved Wednesday includes a 16,730-square-foot pharmacy and a 9,450-square-foot child-care center. The pharmacy will feature a drive-up window, built alongside the Spring Road side of the structure and away from neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. homes. Wednesday night's vote was made over protest by two neighborhood residents, Mayor Pat Hunter and Councilman John Wozniak
John Wozniak (born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on January 19, 1971) is an American musician. . Hunter called the project a ``mediocrity'' and said he expected a more high-profile project for what he considered a gateway to the city. ``Based on the visibility of that corner, the plan lacks vision, imagination and creativity,'' Hunter said. ``This is the type of development people moved to Moorpark to avoid. It's a mediocrity me·di·oc·ri·ty n. pl. me·di·oc·ri·ties 1. The state or quality of being mediocre. 2. Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance. 3. One that displays mediocre qualities. , and we shouldn't have settled for it. Our residents deserve better.'' Supporters of the project note that both the drugstore and the child-care facility fit the area's zoning plan, and that 50 percent of the lot will be landscaped gardens and play areas. ``This landowner has paid his taxes, and it's an allowed use in an appropriate zone - it could have been a strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. with 16 stores. This is better,'' said Council member Chris Evans, who supported the new plan. ``At some point we have to ask what are we going to hold for on that corner?'' |
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