COUNCIL DENIES APPEAL OF CENTER ALBERTSONS-ANCHORED COMPLEX OK'D.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - City Council members voted down west Palmdale and Quartz Hill residents' protest of a 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 anchored by an Albertsons supermarket on the city's northern border. The council voted 5-0 Wednesday night to approve the center at the southwest corner of Avenue N and 50th Street West. The council also ordered the developers to extend the widening of Avenue N farther than originally planned. The center had originally been approved Aug. 15 by the city Planning city planning, process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient transport and communication, adequate public facilities, and aesthetic surroundings. Commission, but neighbors appealed to the council. Opponents contend the shopping center will add trash, crime and traffic to their neighborhoods, and that it's wrong to sell liquor liquor /li·quor/ (lik´er) (li´kwor) pl. liquors, liquo´res [L.] 1. a liquid, especially an aqueous solution containing a medicinal substance. 2. next door to a city soccer field. The Albertsons chain proposes a nine-acre shopping center with a 57,560-square-foot supermarket, an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. carwash and a convenience store with gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by pumps. Smaller shops and restaurants would cover an additional 16,900 square feet of space. Ten adjoining acres are also zoned for stores but are not involved in the current proposal. City officials said the Albertsons development would be on land designated for a shopping center since 1993, when the council revised the Palmdale General Plan for city development. |
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