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Downtown San Fernando market divides merchants; council backs Celebration Expo, agrees to split April market costs and ask ad hoc for review
Summary
After hours of public comment both supporting and opposing the San Fernando Outdoor Market, the council voted to co‑sponsor the March 16 Celebration Expo and to provide partial support for the April market while directing the Mall Association MOU ad hoc and ICON CDC to finish a merchant survey and report back.
The San Fernando City Council spent more than an hour on March 3 on competing public testimony over the Downtown San Fernando Outdoor Market and a separate Bridal Celebration Expo, hearing merchants and residents who alternately urged the council to keep the market and others who said the monthly market harms brick‑and‑mortar businesses.
Council voted 5–0 to co‑sponsor the Celebration Expo set for March 16 and to waive the city’s normal application and street‑closure fees for that single event. Deputy City Manager Kanika Kieth told the council the city holds roughly $212,000 in a business‑improvement account (the mall association fund) that is intended to support retail…
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