COUNCIL POSTPONES VOTE ON WHOLE FOODS MARKET.Byline: EUGENE TONG tong 1 tr.v. tonged, tong·ing, tongs To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs. [Back-formation from tongs. Staff Writer BURBANK -- With one member absent, the City Council postponed a decision to reconsider a contentious proposal for a Whole Foods Market in the Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. district. Mayor Todd Campbell was on a business trip in Washington, D.C., and could not make the Tuesday night meeting, at which developer Tom Davies Tom Davies (born October 14, 1896) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. was slated to pitch a scaled-down 40,000-square-foot store at 901W.Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. Ave. Developer representatives did not appear at the meeting. The council voted 3-1 to continue the hearing Tuesday, with Councilman David Gordon David Gordon may refer to:
On Feb.20, a 3-2 council majority rejected a 52,000-square-foot version of the organic grocery store, but the refusal won't be final until the panel formalizes the decision in a resolution -- usually a formality formality, in chemistry: see chemical equilibrium; concentration. . But in a surprise move rarely seen in City Hall, the Westlake Village-based developer last week proposed a last-minute reduction in size that he hoped could sway at least one council member. Opponents say the store, proposed in a neighborhood of ranchettes with backyard stables, could create a traffic nightmare. At Tuesday's hearing, they wore buttons that read "Whole Fraud" and insisted remaining council members adopt a resolution denying the project. "The vote is due, and you really owe it to the community," area resident Bill Luddy said. Davies originally planned a 60,000-square-foot store with two levels of underground parking on the 76,000-square-foot site at Alameda Avenue and Main Street now occupied by an office building. When the council considered the project, Councilman David Golonski and some opponents objected to the store's size, and the developer reduced it to 52,340 square feet. Davies had said the market could not be any smaller, but Golonski, who suggested paring the building down to 40,000 square feet, held firm and eventually voted against it. Both sides have said a smaller market would not have much impact on the traffic that the store could generate. eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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