Posting "No on Home Depot" comments is like shooting fish in a barrel. But someone is pretty passionate about all the anti-Home Depot stuff out there...so I decided to be compassionate and post their pro-Depot comment as a main thread. (Don't say I never did anything for the opposing view.)
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Zuma Dogg's Master Thread About Home Depot in Sunland":
Zuma Dog put down that doobie and please stop with all the end of the world nonsense about Home Depot. The two hardware stores nearby and the former Kmart all sell/sold the same chemicals (various lawn and garden products, paints, lubricants, and cleaners) without incident. Nobody is bitchin' about those stores.... The Kmart even had a waste oil underground storage tank.
Underground tanks in the area are a much bigger threat to groundwater and they are all over (every gas station, Sunland car wash, Verizon, LADWP pump station, Kamboj Liquor, Drive-in diary, a house on Greenwich St). Many of them have leaked too (ARCO, 7-11, and Chevron). The largest chemical container sold at a Home Depot is 5 gallons. Underground tanks can be 10,000 gallons or more. Do the math.
FYI - the LAUSD school up the street is a small quantity waste generator for pesticides and asbestos. Which site is really a bigger exposure risk for kids?
If you want to be against the Home Depot that's fine, but don't try and trump up all this environmental BS in an effort to make it a legitimate reason to oppose a retail store. It just doesn't fly.......
This sounds like a Not In My BackYard (NIMBY) issue to me. The property is zoned retail and all that Kmart merchandise was delivered by truck for almost 30 years without community uproar.
Sorry I can't sympathize. To me this is like people who buy a house next to an airport and then complain about noise.
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