SURVEY FINDS PALMDALE RESIDENTS FAVOR AIRPORT, RESTAURANT.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Residents are feeling safe at home, support development of an international airport and want the city to get a T.G.I. Friday's T.G.I. Friday's (often referred to as just "Fridays") is a popular American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining, with over 500 restaurants across the United States, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Australia and the UK, as well as many other countries around the world. restaurant, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the results of a survey released Thursday. In a survey of 337 people conducted during the city's Oct. 10-11 Fall Festival, 80.1 percent said they felt safe in their neighborhoods, and 88.4 percent of the residents favor Palmdale as the site of an international airport. City officials have been arguing that the city of Los Angeles
overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at LAX. ``It's good to have the community there to say, `Yes, we want this.' Every other community in 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. is saying, `We don't want this,' '' said Mayor Jim Ledford. The survey was not scientific but does offer a quick snapshot of how residents feel, city officials said. To encourage people to fill out the survey, the city held a drawing for a model of a B-2 stealth bomber. The model was won by Leesa Garrett, whose 7-year-old son, Cole, quickly laid claim to the airplane when it was presented Thursday. The survey indicated that residents want the city to pursue bringing more aerospace work to the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . Ledford said the survey might prompt the city to look at ways to form partnerships with the aerospace companies to encourage job retention and job creation. ``Aerospace is king here in the Antelope Valley,'' Ledford said. ``We have to look at the efforts we're taking and expand those.'' The survey also asked residents what restaurants they want to see come to Palmdale. The leader was T.G.I. Friday's, followed by Claim Jumpers Noun 1. claim jumper - one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another . Real estate brokers have talked with T.G.I. Friday's about coming to Palmdale. City officials said they plan to call T.G.I. Friday's corporate officials to inform them about the survey results. The survey also included space for residents to write about concerns. Among the issues that came up was the need to take care of dying landscape throughout the city. Ledford suggested Thursday that the city set up neighborhood meetings in areas that rejected landscape maintenance assessments to try to encourage them to consider revoting on the issue. |
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