Comment 67654

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted August 08, 2011 at 14:28:15

A friend of a friend was recently complaining that she got stuck with a ~$400 "awning fee" to licence an awning over the door of her new business. Nothing fancy, just an awning over the door with the business name printed on it, and no, not a penny of the fee went toward the awning itself. She was understandably confused and annoyed.

The HGH is an example of horrible legislation. The text of the law was obviously totally insufficient to regulate this type of business - so whatur do they do? Adjust the law? No, they punished the Guest House owners and clients for their own failures. We badly need an appeals process which doesn't just mean re-submitting the same issue before the same group of unelected bureaucrats. If these laws really exist to protect communities (rather than just stifling competition for our largest businesses), then why not put them to communities to decide?

One more reason that this town badly needs more grassroots democratic institutions.

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