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Amazon.com Inc has stopped work on a new warehouse in San Francisco after the city’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement a moratorium on new parcel delivery services there.
The incident is the latest flashpoint between Amazon and some of the communities where it’s setting up shop amid a rapid expansion of its urban presence. The world’s largest online retailer in recent years has established hundreds of delivery stations in cities large and small across the US.
These facilities receive packaged items from larger warehouses and hand them off to drivers for the “last-mile†trip to customer doorsteps. Residents in some cities where Amazon has opened delivery stations have complained about increased traffic, noise and air pollution.
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted 10-0 to approve a measure that brings an 18-month halt to new parcel delivery services in the city.