I’ve written before about the ongoing recall in Rosemead centered on the approval and soon to be open Wal-Mart in Rosemead. See here. There is a parallel effort in court to stop the Wal-Mart or at least punish them. Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed a brief against Wal-Mart contending it created a public health risk because people drive there. Read the story here.
Soon to come are briefs against churches, any new shopping mall, the beach and Disneyland.
August 9th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Rosemead’s city attorney attacked the Lockyer filing as “political,” saying the AG has filed THREE amicus briefs in cases involving Wal-Mart.
Three briefs doesn’t exactly strike me as a witch hunt, particularly for a corporation that seems to think conditions of approval and mitigation under CEQA are optional (over 120 violations detected by Save Our Community volunteers–and that’s just the one’s we’ve seen with our own eyes).
It’s too bad the current city council majority agrees that mitigation and conditions of approval are things that don’t need to actually be enforced and monitored. Fortunately, they won’t be the majority for much longer.