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711, LIQUOR STORES, COMMUNITY CONCERNS

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Category: Community News

Published on Saturday, 03 April 2010 23:43

Written by Dianne Lawrence

711, looking to open a new location, has been nosing around the MINC and UNNC community. Residents turned up to a MINC meeting to speak with a 711 repesentative who cancelled at the last minute. There was strong response from many in the MINC community against any additional liquor selling establishments but there was support from those who claimed 711’s lower prices would drain sales from surrounding liquor stores who can often be  a source  of  problems for the local community.

Liquorama,  one block west of La Brea on Washington has become a concern for local businesses and residents.Complaints allege shopping carts and trash left in the back alley, graffiti on the walls,  weeds that are 12” high inside and outside the fence, people loitering, drinking and urinating outside, liquor bottles on the sidewalks, gutters and the landscaping of local businesses, as well as arrests that occur regularly outside the store. An effort to get the owner of the establishment to address these concerns seems to have fallen on deaf  ears. 
Stay tuned on our website for news regarding a special joint UNNC/MINC community meeting to be held at Councilman Wesson's office about a proposed convenience store selling liquor.  Residents are urged to report problems at current liquor stores. 
Potential problems can be sales to minors, the sale of drug paraphenalia, loitering, operating during unapproved hours, or drug dealing, public urination, or prostitution on or radiating from the property.  Contact your lead LAPD officer at the Wilshire or Olympic division with the date and time and nature of problem. Letters and petitions are always helpful.

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