City Bans Indoor Swap Meets Pending New Laws
Indoor swap meets will be banned in Glendora, at least until this December, while guidelines are established to regulate them, city officials said.
The action taken Tuesday came on the heels of a 45-day ban on so-called “multi-retail businesses,” imposed after Mehdi Farkhondehpour opened the Swapmeet Club in a local shopping center late last year. When Farkhondehpour refused to close after the emergency moratorium was passed Dec. 5, the city obtained a preliminary injunction from a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, forcing the business to shut down Dec. 30.
City officials say the business was illegal because nothing in the city code permits indoor or outdoor swap meets.
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