Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy v. City of
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 (collectively, the Alliance) argue a municipal zoning ordinance that applies to projects that “create or add” 100,000 square feet of floor space also applies to projects that “transform” that space. A zoning administrator in the Los Angeles Department of City Planning rejected this argument and renewed a conditional use beverage permit issued to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for a store located on South Normandie Avenue. The zoning administrator determined the Normandie store, which already exceeded 100,000 square feet when the City of Los Angeles approved its “Superstore Ordinance,” did not become a “Superstore” when Walmart remodeled the store’s interior without “creating or adding” 100,000 square feet of floor area.
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