Lobbying effort for Home Deport
The high-stakes fight over a Home Depot in Sunland-Tujunga will reach a showdown Wednesday when the City Council decides whether the giant retailer can open its new store or must go back to the drawing board. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.
Community activists have been sending e-mails and handwritten letters to council members, hoping to persuade them that Home Depot should have to further study the environmental and traffic impacts before converting a vacant Kmart on Foothill Boulevard into a home-improvement store.
Home Depot lobbyists, meanwhile, have been calling individual council members to explain that the retailer followed city rules and shouldn't have its building permit revoked.