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   Citing free-speech rights, La Cañada Flintridge leaders voted this week to   
   officially allow fortunetellers, palm readers, psychics and other self-   
   styled clairvoyants to set up shop within city limits.   
      
   The issue came up after the city received inquiries from fortunetellers   
   weighing a move to La Cañada, city officials said. The only problem was   
   that the city's zoning code did not address fortunetellers or similar   
   vendors, leaving them in a limbo of being neither allowed nor barred.   
      
   The City Council's vote on Monday erased that ambiguity and specifically   
   allows the businesses to operate in certain commercial areas of the city,   
   the La Cañada Valley Sun reported.   
      
   The move came after city officials said in a report that fortunetelling   
   and psychic readings are considered free speech and therefore could not be   
   subject to an outright ban.   
      
   But members of the planning commission, which first took up the issue this   
   summer, struggled over how to define such businesses under the city code.   
   Some called them a form of entertainment, others saw them as service   
   providers.   
      
   Council members eventually settled on the services label with little   
   debate.   
      
   “Some people think it’s just a fun thing, and some think it’s a serious   
   service. I can’t tell you who’s right or wrong, but to accommodate that,   
   we put it down as a service,” Mayor Laura Olhasso said.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-canada-fortune-tellers-   
   free-speech-20131010,0,5947451.story   
      
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