Perhaps in the near future, but long term I think locations will not be prized because they are grandfather-ed for the use of gas stoves. Why? This ordinance, if it stands, essentially makes the market for gas stoves – from manufacture to aftermarket service – obsolete. So if you have a restaurant that is allowed to have a gas burner and it breaks or needs service eventually you won’t have anyone to service or replace it. So as an owner of such an appliance you’ll be forced to swap out to electric or induction, making any grandfather-ed store locations not anymore unique than any other location.
This ordinance is classic structural racism.
It’s a law passed with the ostensible goal of environmental preservation but it’s real intended target is targeting a minority population (i.e. Asians like Koreans and Chinese) so as to make them conform more to the majority way of doing things. Because, as you rightly note, the use of gas stoves and burners contributes to such a minute percentage of overall pollution that even wiping out all gas stove tops would not have any type of meaningful or appreciable impact on the environment.
If environmental goals was really the intended purpose, why not ban beef since cows and cattle contribute far more to environmental pollution than gas stoves do. Or maybe almonds, since CA is in a severe drought and almonds are thirstier than fish.
But I digress.
Sorry for the rant.
Carry on.
