LA City Council Thinks Poor People Are Too Dumb to Make Food Choices
Did any of you read the ordinance?
1) It is an interim ordinance. It is a temporary hold on permitting new fast food restaurants in a particular area. The stated purpose is to allow time for city planners to complete a study.
2) The proponents of the measure on the city council (Perry and Parks) represent the districts in question. If this measure is opposed by the people of those districts they can vote them out.
3) The primary opposition to this proposal comes for outside the districts in question.
4) These areas have few choices in grocery stores. These stores offer fewer healthy options and the produce is of lower quality and higher price than in more affluent communities. (When your target audience relies on public transit you can better gouge them.)
5) Perry and Parks are attempting to attract more grocery stores and sit down restaurants to the area in the alloted time.
I don’t know that the ordinance will have any practical positive effects, but delaying the permitting of some fast food restaurants in the districts with the highest concentration of fast food restaurants in the city will have little if any negative impact.
Magic’s willingness to invest were others would not has done considerable good in attracting and building businesses and other opportunities to these neighborhoods.
