Legal Opinion
Petworth Holdings, LLC v. Bowser
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 20, 2018No. Civil Action No. 18–3 (JEB)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Although cities seek to attract destination restaurants and desirable retail, they must also keep the more prosaic needs of their citizenry in mind. For example, fearing the rapid disappearance of full-service gas stations from the District of Columbia, the D.C. City Council passed the Retail Service Station Act (RSSA) in 1976 to ban the conversion of such gas stations to limited-service stations. This moratorium was reauthorized ten times and made permanent in 2005.
In recent years a different threat emerged: District gas stations were…
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