MOORPARK : Plan for Shopping Complex Opposed
Too big, too noisy, too much traffic, and an all-around bad idea is how Moorpark residents Wednesday described a proposal to build a Lucky grocery and a Sav-On Drugs store in the city’s Mountain Meadows neighborhood.
The Moorpark City Council got an earful from more than two dozen residents at a meeting to consider modifying a permit to build the stores on an undeveloped 12-acre parcel off of Tierra Rejada Road near Moorpark High School.
The council also accepted a petition signed by more than 300 other neighbors who think it is a bad idea to build the stores in a residential community.
But the proposal by American Stores is only a modification of a plan by another company that was approved in 1990, and anticipated for more than five years before that.
Several council members said they were concerned that although the shopping center complex was slightly smaller than the one approved in 1990, the size of the market jumped from 43,000 square feet to more than 60,000 square feet.
The company also wants to have store hours from 6 a.m. to midnight, with the option to keep the Sav-On Drugs store open 24 hours. But neighbors said that noise at odd hours from trucks, and the constant glare of lights would make their lives miserable.
The council continued the public hearing on the matter to a special meeting Nov. 29.
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