Broadway and 94th, South Los Angeles
The grocery store business is concerned about parking, safety concerns, and traffic safety in getting the delivery trucks in and out.
But academically trained urban planners know better. It is apparently better to have a vacant lot, than to have a grocery store in the neighborhood.
Broadway and 94th, South Los Angeles
Sounds like the city councilman was just looking to create more opportunities for the predators in his district.
Grocery stores "tend to believe, rightly or wrongly, that they need a certain number of parking spaces in front to succeed," Rosenfeld said
Uh, do you know the reason that they think this, genius? Because they DO need a certain number of parking spaces to succeed! They aren't stupid. Parking is one of the most absolutely critical elements of any project that isn't in a wealthy, downtown residential or business district of a city. They need the car traffic to survive. Yet this Rosenfeld is smarter than the guys who do this for a living.
>>Grocery stores “tend to believe, rightly or wrongly, that they need a certain number of parking spaces in front to succeed,” Rosenfeld said. “They don’t always want what an academically trained urban planner would want.<<
Rightly of Wrongly?????
If I didn’t know that was real, I would swear this was from the Onion.
If the business is wrong they cease to exist. If an academic idiot is wrong, he gets promoted through longevity.
Unspoken: "Whereas we, as government busybodies, know EVERYONE'S business best"
Fully that supermarket people would believe they know their business better than gov't people, particularly gov't people coming out of South Los Angeles. And that's another thing I love about. 94th and Broadway would be considered South-Central Los Angeles to anyone who has visited that area. It is north of the 105 and south of the LAPD's 77th St. Division which is also located on Broadway. In another words, not a good area. The only non-residential properties located in that area are motels, liquor stores, churches and mortuaries.
You can always tell a Libtard.
But you can’t tell him much.
I predict if Sanders is elected, one of the things we’ll see is “Bernie-Marts”, government-run stores in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
“Other areas such as Culver City set standards for new development, she said. “Are we saying that South L.A. shouldn’t have a say?”
Suit yourself.
>it sharply opposed moving the building because it would create “a hiding space for criminal activity.”
Idiots. Then police your Dindu Nuffins and illegals.
They offered to buy the house, they offered a sound wall, they offered to have the delivery at the furthest dock which would be further away then they were currently offloading the milk.
Nope. Nope. And Nope.
Finally they said, okay then, we will shut the store down.
The screeches of outrage were heard on Pluto.
In Orange County several decades ago, a new shopping mall was in the planning stages, on land owned by the Segerstrom farming family.
One proposal would place the center a few blocks to the north in the city of Santa Ana, while another proposal would put it a little to the south in the city of Costa Mesa.
Santa Ana “planners” saw it as an opportunity to get the developer to pay for streets, parks etc. They made strict demands, for approval.
Costa Mesa planners asked the developer if the city could do anything to help get it built.
Needless to say, it wound up on a site in Costa Mesa along the planned 405 freeway, and today stands as one of the iconic centers in the world.
This scenario with Santa Ana repeated years later, for siting of a professional basketball/hockey facility, with the winner this time Anaheim. (they tried three sites in Santa Ana before it was over)
“Grocery stores ‘tend to believe, rightly or wrongly, that they need a certain number of parking spaces in front to succeed,’ Rosenfeld said. ‘They don’t always want what an academically trained urban planner would want... They believe they know their business best’.”
Nah, the bureaucrats always know best. You can’t expect a businessman to know more about his own business than a hack like this dispensing red tape. No wonder government is a complete failure.
“They don’t always want what an academically trained urban planner would want... They believe they know their business best.”
You Think!
Better negotiated a 20 year pre-paid P & C insurance with rioting and vandalism clause and see how much the city wants to put up for that.
“But academically trained urban planners know better.”
Yes, I wonder what academy “trains” urban planners. Or are they sorta like community planners. I can see how wonderful Chicago is since they had such a fabu community planner.
I’m sure the people who have run supermarkets know a little more about running supermarkets than academia trains its experts.
The “you didn’t build that” consortium will reduce your grocery store to a pile of rubble in under 2 years.