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October 30, 2009

PROTESTERS PICKET RESTAURANT OPERATING AS TAKEOUT

Jane Gilman

RESIDENTS PICKETED in front of Larchmont Bungalow to call attention to a zoning violation. They are, from left, Patty Lombard, Bill Simon, Wendy Savage, Patty Carroll and Linda Lennon.

“We’re mad as hell and we’ve had enough.”

That was the rallying cry when dozens of area residents passed out flyers protesting the opening of a restaurant posing as a “takeout” at 107 N. Larchmont Blvd.

Larchmont Bungalow is operating under false colors, said Patty Lombard, a Fremont Place resident. She and other community members picketed in front of the restaurant during the Larchmont Family Fair on Oct. 25. They claim the Bungalow with its profuse number of tables and chairs inside and on the sidewalk is in violation of the Q Condition. The zoning law limits the number of restaurants on Larchmont Blvd. between Beverly Blvd. and First St.

Before opening this month, the property owner Albert Mizrahi signed a Covenant and Agreement with the city forbidding tables and chairs and dining on the premises. Mizrahi has said at community meetings that other takeouts on the boulevard have seating and some are operating as restaurants.

The restaurant was granted a takeout permit which does not entitle the business to have tables and chairs.

The Q Condition passed in 1996 to assure a mix of retail businesses on the boulevard.

The protesters are urging a boycott of the restaurant until it complies with the law.

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