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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Mary Cheh and David Catania to the rescue:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/wp/2014/10/06/safeways-palisades-plans-at-issue-in-tuesday-d-c-council-vote/

They are introducing a bill on Tuesday to prohibit covenants forbidding grocery stores.

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This is great, I hope it passes. Screw Safeway. [/quote]

Yes, PLEASE let it pass.  What a shitty thing to do to a neighborhood.  Why in the hell these are legal to begin with - creating restrictions on whomever buys the property from you - is incomprehensible.[/quote]

This bill apparently passed today:

http://www.councilmembercatania.com/catania_emergency_legislation_to_preserve_grocery_store_services_in_the_district_unanimously_approved

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Fantastic!  Thank you for posting!

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Is it really fantastic? Do you really want the government telling you what you can and can't do with the property you own? It also seems unfair to me to basically make a law to target one business. Safeway tried to develop the property. The community fought them. Now they should be expected to facilitate their competition moving into the space they wanted to develop but couldn't. Seems quite unfair to me. 
And I imagine that Safeway has pretty good lawyers. They will figure out a way to make sure a grocery store doesn't end up on that property. 
If the people in the neighborhood are holding out for a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods, they are going to be sorely disappointed. [/quote]

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