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Beverly Hills wants to welcome tourists. Tour buses, not so much

Beverly Hills, its streets lined with palm trees and pricey celebrity mansions, has long encouraged selfie-snapping tourists to stroll into its swanky shops and restaurants.

But when it comes to letting smoke-belching tour buses disgorge visitors among high-end retailers such as Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and Versace, the town hasn't been so welcoming.

"At peak tour times, my patients remark that the city of Beverly Hills is becoming a theme park, with tour buses much like Universal Studios," psychologist Robert Morris complained in a recent letter to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission.

Tour bus loading zones in the business district have been installed and removed at

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