Home Depot plans rejected
Giving Sunland-Tujunga residents a huge victory in the nearly three-year fight to keep Home Depot out of their community, the Los Angeles City Council yanked the improvement center's building permit Wednesday, sending it back to the drawing board to come up with a better plan. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.
The decision will delay the project up to a year while the company mulls whether it wants to install more traffic controls, add landscaping and limit operating hours or abandon the Foothill Boulevard site.
"It's really refreshing to see our council totally and completely understand us," said Debby Beck, a Sunland-Tujunga resident. "I just hope it's a new era for the Building and Safety and Planning departments taking a more careful look at projects."
Home Depot, which has threatened to sue if its permit was revoked, would not say Wednesday what it would do next.
And the vote drew sharp criticism from business leaders, who said the city was changing the rules in midgame and sending a bad message to companies and retailers that want to locate in L.A. and provide sales tax revenue.