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Sunset Junction Festival Cancelled

Sunset Junction Festival Cancelled
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 08.24.2011

L.A. denies them a permit

The Sunset Junction street festival has been cancelled this year after the Los Angeles Board of Public Works denied them a permit. The panel issued the denial after the group only came up with $100,000 of the $141,000 that the festival owed, and that much was a loan from Live Nation. Phil Tate, a lawyer for the group, asked that the city allow them to provide a check tomorrow, a day after the deadline, and said that if the permit was denied than the city would be unlikely to get the $260,000 owed from last year.

"You'll be one of many creditors standing in line waiting to get paid," he said. "Because if this falls, the vendors, the bands, they're not just going to quietly slink off into the night and this organization is probably going to go away."

The board still denied the permit and board president Andrea Alarcon said, "We've given you opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to come clean, to make it right. This is far short to making it right. This is not an indication to me that any funds will be available for issuance of a check to support the special events permit. I do see a deposit of $100,000, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. Fail me once, shame on you. Fail me twice, shame on me. Thisorganization has failed this city time and time again."

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