Even during pandemic, too many city departments are overly focused on enforcing fines, fees & strict rules than helping small businesses & residents survive. We need to shift mandate, mindset & culture of city departments from erecting barriers & punishment to services & support.
Small biz are shops on the streets people do drugs on, poop on and commit crimes on is actually what thread is about. Plus keep getting broken into and no one gets arrested but we get parking tickets for “street cleaning” when our sidewalks are covered in poop, drugs and crime.
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Well I guess we’ve identified the misunderstanding. I believe parking tickets are given to people who break the law and small business owners do not

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you’ve still got it wrong, parking tickets go to people who park illegally. But the point is-why should some people have to pay tickets when others don’t. It’s not legal to poop on the street, or to discard dirty needles...but this offenders don’t get tickets
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