LOS ANGELES — On weekdays, Ivar Street is a quiet strip of Hollywood with a theater, a sound recording studio, a Jack in the Box, a gay and lesbian elderly housing complex and a film school. Every Sunday morning, it becomes the Hollywood Farmers Market, four bustling blocks of farm and food stands offering everything from oyster mushrooms to California sea bass to a crowd of 8,000 people
But after 19 years in existence, the Hollywood Farmers Market is endangered, at the center of a fight that has put on display three of this city’s most powerful passions: Food, film and parking. The Los Angeles Film School, a relative newcomer to what was once a seedy pocket of Hollywood, has moved to prevent the Farmers Market from renewing its permit because farm stands obstruct the driveway to its most convenient parking lot.
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