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Rapid delivery ambitions are running into opposition from municipal governments in the US, with the latest collision in San Francisco.

The city’s board of supervisors has stopped construction of an Amazon fulfilment centre in its tracks.

With a unanimous vote, the board ratified legislation introduced in February imposing an 18-month moratorium on the establishment of new parcel delivery facilities in the city.

Opposition to Amazon’s plans to build the hub near Mission Creek erupted after San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development ...

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