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The same, corrupt bu!!$#!+ the rest of us have been putting up with for years from those elected to run this city.
How does it feel?
I really appreciate the fact that the City is treating these people with kid gloves. It would not be difficult for them to just go in and tear down all of the unlicensed structures.
@smirk: Did Leonard actually use the phrase, "propane-tank missiles"? I fucking hope so!
As for Randy, he said something quite close.
Try it and come back to me.
selling food out of your van = foodcart.
building a seating area = restaurant.
if one of those patios collapsed and crushed a bunch of people, foodcarts would not have the insurance to cover it because.......that's right, because they're foodcarts! if you're a foodcart owner, well, it sucks. but it's not bullshit. you can sell food out of a trailer or open a restaurant, but you can't have it both ways
This is quite an outpouring of bile about some unbelievably simple structures, and it would definitely surprise me to learn that food carts carry no insurance - if I owned a commercial lot that rented space to a cart, proof of adequate insurance would be an obvious requirement from any tenants.
Try it and come back to me."
I have, D. But I'm not whingeing about it like it's merely specific to this town. That shit's universal. The missing component to all your troll-ish crap is always specifics. Feel free to share your woeful tale of persecution any time.
My #1 regret of 2010 is that I wasn't riding that route that morning. I would have barreled directly into him and then sued the hell out of KATU. Their lack of journalistic ethics and completely willful ignorance of what is "newsworthy" just disgusts me. I'll stick to KOIN and KGW.
TSW - It's the inconsistency, hypocrisy and favoritedness/corruption that stands head and shoulders above other cities.
They cannot define their own codes, which are contradictory and arbitrary. They excuse this as being 'complaint-based' but once you pull a permit EVERYTHING is subject to their whims, unfairly, unevenly and exhorbitantly expensive, time consuming and bordering on the impossible.
Which is why Leonard's discouragement of permit pulling and the 'do it if you dare' quote from the O story is dead on.
Thanks for reinforceing your own reputation by not answering my question.
Troll outreach terminated.
Restuarants are actually the main issue to me. They have to pay higher rent, provide restrooms, and deal with all kinds of requirements that food carts don't have to. If I were a restaurant owner dealing with these extra costs and watched food carts basically building restaurants onto their side without these costs, I'd be pissed. I work near one of the pods in question. Some of these structures are basically awnings, but some are quite elaborate, wired for electricity and so on. The expectation that they'd go without notice was pretty silly.
Oh, Im sorry. Under an awning on a curb.
* Food carts: serve food from you cart.
* Food carts: don't build extra crap.
I expect a check to my legal consultation fees made out to a one "Sense, Common".
Also, restaurants have servers, bathrooms, etc. These are not anything like that. They're just giving you a table to sit at, out of the rain.