The Los Angeles City Council gave initial approval Tuesday to an ordinance banning stores from providing customers single-use plastic bags.
When that didn't work, the people of Ocean View drew up a charter, established Albany, and adopted an ordinance against storing outside waste as a way to end the so-called Garbage Wars.
Under the City of Los Angeles' ordinance, large grocery stores that make $2 million or more in gross annual sales or stores with at least 10,000 square feet of retail space would have to phase out plastic bags by Jan . 1 , 2014
The new ordinance bans gun stores in Chicago and prohibits gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches, with a handgun.
The note was to inform Jeremy that he was in violation of a city ordinance that prohibits storing junk outside your house.
Cambridge's ordinance bans pet stores from selling any non-rescue animals other than fish — meaning that besides dogs and cats, it also covers everything from birds to snakes to small animals like mice, rats and hamsters.
(If the city council ever changes their minds about the value of the PDA and store, it can overturn its founding ordinance at any time to immediately dissolve both).
While working on an article about the city ordinance, I called a grocery store in my neighborhood, Canyon Market, to see how its owners felt about the law.
It involves working in a heavily blasted area of tangled metal, much of it underwater, not far from where large amounts of unexploded ordinance, including cruise missiles, were stored when the attack occurred.
But as a local politician, he has pressed for passage of an ordinance to restrict the discount stores in the interest of protecting his constituents from the traffic jams, even the motorcycle gangs, that some say will blight their neighborhoods.
