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Residents and merchants clash at council over El Mercado; council sends matter back to planning commission
Summary
After hours of oral testimony from residents who alleged drug sales and code violations and merchants who said the market provides livelihoods, the council amended language and referred the Chesbrough/El Mercado zoning matter back to the Planning Commission and PLUM for a noticed evaluation.
An emotional public hearing on an application affecting El Mercado (Chesbrough Lane) produced sharply divergent testimony and a council action to send the matter back for further planning review.
Residents described long‑running problems they attribute to the Mercado site — including illicit activity, sanitation problems and encampment concerns — and said prior remedies had failed. Diana Tarango, a long‑time resident who gave her address to the record, said she had attended multiple hearings and court proceedings and called the renewed council action ‘‘unfair’’ after years of unresolved violations.
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