Comments on: All Businesses Allowed, Except Those That Are Proven Successes With Customers http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/all-businesses.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Wolf http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/all-businesses.html/comment-page-1#comment-9756 Michael Wolf Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:30:11 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/all-businesses.html#comment-9756 <p>I don't want any nimbies in my back yard!</p> I don’t want any nimbies in my back yard!

]]> By: BerthaMinerva http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/all-businesses.html/comment-page-1#comment-9755 BerthaMinerva Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:18:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/all-businesses.html#comment-9755 <p>So true! Here in Austin TX a local group has just failed trying to block the development of a Wal-Mart super-center on the site of a pretty much defunct mall. They have used every argument in the book - increased traffic, the aesthetics of the partking area's design, runoff into the local creek, etc - except the one that is really the motivation: that they don't want the type of people who shop at Wal-Mart in their slowly gentrifying neighborhood.</p> <p>Some local radio guy said, quite correctly, that it if were a giant Whole Foods going into that place, there'd be celebrations and a ribbon-cutting ceremony and stuff. </p> So true! Here in Austin TX a local group has just failed trying to block the development of a Wal-Mart super-center on the site of a pretty much defunct mall. They have used every argument in the book – increased traffic, the aesthetics of the partking area’s design, runoff into the local creek, etc – except the one that is really the motivation: that they don’t want the type of people who shop at Wal-Mart in their slowly gentrifying neighborhood.

Some local radio guy said, quite correctly, that it if were a giant Whole Foods going into that place, there’d be celebrations and a ribbon-cutting ceremony and stuff.

]]> By: Larry Sheldon http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/all-businesses.html/comment-page-1#comment-9754 Larry Sheldon Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:28:26 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/all-businesses.html#comment-9754 <p>I think San Francisco has similar law -- if you already have eleven, you can't open any more.</p> I think San Francisco has similar law — if you already have eleven, you can’t open any more.

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