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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 19, 2007

Trimming the Fat?

Forum Column - By Samuel R. Staley - The Los Angeles City Council's new plan to keep fast-food establishments out of South L.A. will hurt the working poor and the business atmosphere of the community.

FORUM COLUMN

By Samuel R. Staley

      One would be hard pressed to find a public policy that better exemplifies the suffocating presence of the so-called "nanny state" than Los Angeles' proposed two-year moratorium on fast food restaurants.
      Regulating fast food restaurants is not new. Some towns have used their local zoning codes to ban certain types of restaurants and maintain a high-class v...

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