After an outcry from Mar Vista residents and a strongly worded warning from Councilman Mike Bonin, the Los Angeles city attorney’s office has filed a lawsuit against a proposed medical marijuana dispensary before it was slated to begin operations.
The planned dispensary was to open at 3472 S. Centinela Ave. – a commercially zoned space formerly home to a Mrs. Gooch's market. But the plot is surrounded by houses and apartments on land zoned for residential use.
Both Bonin and Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer said that opening a pot shop there would violate Proposition D, which voters passed last spring to limit the number of dispensaries and forbid them from operating near homes, schools or parks.
In a statement announcing the civil enforcement action, Feuer said, “My office is working diligently to uphold the will of the voters in passing Proposition D in May, and we are collaborating with the Los Angeles Police Department and Building and Safety to aggressively enforce the law.”
