SOUTH-CENTRAL : Residents Voice Opposition to Rebuilding Liquor Stores
Dozens of South-Central Los Angeles residents told a city commission Thursday that although they want officials to encourage businesses to rebuild in riot-torn neighborhoods, they do not want any more liquor stores or swap meets.
Their comments came as the Planning Commission considered changes to an ordinance that allows businesses that were damaged or destroyed in the 1992 riots to rebuild with fewer bureaucratic hurdles. The changes considered Thursday included reducing the required number of parking spaces and extending the ordinance an additional year until 1996.
Members of the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment said they want to make sure the new provisions will not make it easier for liquor stores to rebuild.
But Min Paek, executive director of the Korean-American Grocers Victims Assn., argued that the same rules should apply to all businesses. She said that only six of her 200-member group have been able to rebuild.
Commissioners delayed a decision for two weeks.
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