Council OKs Target deliveries

The City Council has voted to allow Sunday deliveries at the Target department store on Adams Avenue.

Council members voted 5-1 at their June 19 meeting to change the hours when deliveries could be made at the store and waived the additional one-year review of its conditional-use permit requirement.

The council overrode residents’ concerns about traffic and noise pollution.

“Please leave the delivery hours as they are,” said resident Robert Oakland, whose backyard is next to the store.

A business of this type that couldn’t take deliveries at any time on Sunday isn’t feasible, Mayor Dave Sullivan said.

Councilwoman Debbie Cook voted against the motion, which would permit deliveries to the store at 9882 Adams Ave. between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The previous hours approved by the zoning administrator were 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday with no Sunday deliveries. Saturday deliveries would only be allowed from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

City planner Paul Da Veiga said other department stores in Huntington Beach ? such as Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Lowe’s ? did not have any restrictions regarding loading and delivery operations.