Orange Line extension shuts businesses

For 50 years, Jacobi Building Materials has sold tons of stone, stacks of brick and 60 varieties of landscaping pebbles to contractors and do-it-yourselfers. Sue Doyle in the Daily News.

But plans for a four-mile extension of the Orange Line busway to Chatsworth could shave a 24-foot-wide strip off the Jacobi lot at Vanowen Street and Canoga Avenue.

Aside from eliminating the land where Jacobi stores its heavy inventory, the $225 million busway will also force about 60 businesses - used-car lots, landscaping companies and metal supply stores - to relocate from the land they lease from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.