Viewpoints Matter

"California's Department of Public Health may have made their decision to APPROVE the mobile needle exchange in Costa Mesa, in the face of very little public opposition. Only one member (Mayor Sandy Genis) of the Costa Mesa City Council wrote in opposition to the program during the 90-day long public comment period."

The 19th Street Smart & Final liquor license states the privileges of selling alcohol at the premises stop at 7:00 PM. Smart & Final opted to stop abiding by this rule sometime in the far distant past resulting in a Lost Decade for 19th Street mom & pop markets.

The 'six plus-one' unfairly allows one district to have two votes out of seven on matters the council hears. On matters that closely split the council, this inequitable advantage is magnified as those two votes are 50% of the four votes required to prevail. All the other districts have 25% voting power in these situations; they need to get three more votes.

Read about Smart & Final's shameless actions to perpetuate harm on W 19th Street, a key commercial corridor in District IV. Then, Sign the petition asking them to stop their petition.

Sign the petition asking the ABC to comply with the law and Just Say NO to Smart & Final's Petition to Modify Conditions.