WHEN THE LEGEND IS FACT

Dear Readers:

It has been said the "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." There is a corollary to this, "when the legend is fact, print the fact.". I have stated and so has "Bruce the Blog" that Yorktown is not business friendly. I have been told by a few elected officials that this is legend and not fact. When I point to the Winery at St. George as an example, I am told there were extenuating circumstances. As if that should have any baring!

Well, after a diner I had Saturday night (08/20/11), I can tell you it is a fact. There is another business, already established, that wishes to expand. Let me tell you that they have been put through the hoops, with only one town violation (out of five I know of) that has merit. The rest are either based on nuisance codes or non-existent codes.

When this business appeared before various boards they were given a list of 30 plus items to address. I was told most of the items were petty. When the task of completing the above items was done and they went again to these various boards, they were given another list of 30 plus items to complete. That is insane.
60 plus item and Yorktown officials tell me the Yorktown being business un-friendly is not true. Garbage!

There is no possible reason why any business must address that many items when that business is already in existence. Why should there be nuisance codes anyway. The answer is that past boards codified into law their personal preferences as if they were partners in those business. It is an example of hubris in the nth degree.

Another example of this hubris is when a code enforcer insists a business do or not do something, substituting their whim for written code. Or better yet, stretching an existing code to mean something not intended. This is a common practice in many municipalities as I have been told of these happenings in multiple places.

Developer Escrow Fees, no phone number on signs, color of signs, just to name a few things that should be removed. The use, misuse and abuse of Enviormental codes. Yet in spite of incumbents in multiple municipalities professing to be business friendly, they still exist on the books.

Until candidates either start to say what specifically they will remove, or why they have not yet removed nuisance codes, then all they are doing is pandering. It is not enough to make jumping through the hoops faster, it is removing hoops that really matters. Until then, this new found business friendly mantra is just a crock. This is my Opinion, you may beg to differ.

Anthony J. Bazzo
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Dear Readers:

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Dear Readers:

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SITES TO LINK TO:

ellabellahairclippies: www.ellabellahairclippies.com
http://ellabellahairclippies.blogspot.com

ROB ASTORINO: www.robastorino.com

JOHN G. TESTA: www.johngtesta.com

ON TOPIC W/ JOHN TESTA: www.ontopicwithjt.com

CARS & US: www.doverracing.com

THE WINERY AT ST. GEORGE: http://www.TheWineryAtStGeorge.com

PLAN PUTNAM: planputnam@googlegroups.com/

BRUCE APAR'S NCN BLOG: http://theblogcabin.com/homebase/bapar

NORTH COUNTY NEWS:"http://northcountynews.com/

THE JOURNAL NEWS:http://thejournalnews.com/

PEEKSKILL DAILY: peekskilldaily.com

YORKTOWN WATCHDOG: www.yorktownopengov.org

PADAVANO FINE ARTS: Padovanofineart.com

ASSEMBLYMAN GREG BALL: http://www.ball4ny.com/

PEEKSKILL BID: www.peekskillbid.com or
www.downtownpeekskill.com
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EDITOR'S NOTE:
All articles re-printed in this blog from the North County News are with the permission of Bruce Apar Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

08/22/11