Here’s why:
Posted on 05/19/2023 2:07:57 PM PDT by DFG
Palo Alto, California, administrators have exempted a celebrity chef’s restaurant from the city’s sweeping gas stove ban.
Jose Andres’ newly planned restaurant, Zaytinya, is one of the latest Simon Property Group (SPG) buildings that received project approval in 2019, including for a a gas line, which the restaurant relies on, according to Palo Alto Online. The plan, however, changed when planning staff informed the company that due to the City Council’s revision of the building code, the restaurant was required to use electric stoves.
Simon wrote a letter in April threatening the city council with a lawsuit if it maintained the ban, according to the letter.
This “is a unique situation, where parts of the project were built or under construction when the City’s all-electric new construction rule went into effect,” according to a statement from the city council. “Except for this one-off situation, Palo Alto’s all-electric requirement is being implemented for all new projects and substantial remodels.”
“SPG is confident that the enforcement of the new Reach Code in this context is legally defective and unconstitutional, and SPG is thus prepared to take all actions necessary to enforce its legal rights to employ gas facilities within Building EE,” wrote Anna Shimko, an attorney for SPG Group, LLC. She added that Zaytinya relies on traditional cooking methods that only natural gas appliances would grant “to achieve its signature, complex flavors.”
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Never heard of it.
Some animals are more equal than others
All animals are equal, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Guess if they need fancy food, screw the planet!
Communism writ large and the city should be sued outright for unequal treatment.
It’s a small city in the San Francisco Bay area.
LOL. I am very familiar with Palo Alto, I was surprised I didn’t know the restaurant.
The “gas stove ban” is thr height of insanity. Effect on climate = ZERO!
“The laws exist to protect the elites from those they plunder.”
He can join the mayor and city council drones in getting to have gas stoves.
New source of revenue for city officials ... selling exemptions from the city’s no gas initiative.
Who would want to go there? It’s a Simon Mall which always posts Gunfree Zone and where the crazies like to practice their target shooting.
Palo Alto, one of those elite communities that would pitch a fit were lots of migrants bussed in.
Then let’s send any and all new incoming migrants to them!
Sadly, you’re right.
Yes, and add on Los Altos, Greenwich, Noho, Hudson Yards, Chilmark, Hollywood, Burlington, etc.
Imagine that.
Special privileges for the elite.
Who ever would have thought?
All restaurants cook with gas, most efficient to cook with
Every new restaurant should sue. See who blinks first.
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