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On the article Police Reports: Woman Makes the Worst of a Bad Situation
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On the article City Set to Turn Away Chain Restaurants from East Tosa
Nick Schweitzer
11:07 am on Monday, February 25, 2013
Random Blog Commenter is correct on that... the same thing happened when the O'Reilly Auto Parts was argued. People complaining about the "wrong type" of element coming in closer like with the Advanced Auto Parts, and *gasp* maybe working on their car in the parking lot.
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On the article City Set to Turn Away Chain Restaurants from East Tosa
Nick Schweitzer
10:25 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
What is the worry Christine? First of all... those franchises are popular. People buy their product, or they wouldn't stay in East Tosa for long. Secondly, when was the last time a major chain setup shop in East Tosa? Is this something to even worry about? Why can't we have a mix of chain and non-chain businesses? Isn't that diversity a good thing?
I think the problem is that YOU don't want these businesses there, and so you're trying to use the force of law to get your will done.
As far as your "desire" to have some places you find some places and other things you can find at others... Why is that something that should be codified in to law? What about people who like convenience?
And why shouldn't it be acceptable for there to be repeats of some restaurants all over the city? Some nights I want something fast to eat, so I go to a chain. Other nights I might take my wife to a nice dinner at Il Mito. I think its nice that I don't have to drive all over the city to do that... that the VARIETY exists in all parts of the city.
Once again, none of your DESIRES are things that should be enforced through LAW.
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On the article City Set to Turn Away Chain Restaurants from East Tosa
Nick Schweitzer
9:21 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
You see already we have issues... If 6 is OK, why not 7, or 10, or 15? Let's start making the rules so that only the businesses we already like can get in, and artificially exclude anyone else.
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On the article City Set to Turn Away Chain Restaurants from East Tosa
Nick Schweitzer
9:20 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Yes! Of course! Let's centrally plan everything so that everyone gets a say in everyone else's business. Too many busy bodies in this city.
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On the article City Set to Turn Away Chain Restaurants from East Tosa
Nick Schweitzer
9:17 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
ReplyWho are you people to say who deserves to start a business in a part of town or not. Ann is correct. Most of these businesses are LOCALLY OWNED... they are Franchises which are owned by people in our city. Shame on all of you. And whoever called this "Pro Business" in the article is full of it. How do you call a measure banning businesses from a part of town pro-business? This is anti-business.
East Tosa already has a huge vacancy problem in it's store fronts. And now you want to further restrict who can legally operate a business there? Why? Because an O'Reilly Auto Parts got in?
Maybe from now on the Common Council should also have a say on what types of people are allowed to buy homes in Wauwatosa. Maybe we could restrict on income level, or the amount of education you have. Why is it OK to put nonsense restrictions on the types of businesses we have, when we'd never allow that for the types of home owners we have?
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On the article TIF Funding for UWM Plan Projected to Triple to $30 Million
Nick Schweitzer
8:57 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Reply*blink* I figured we were looking at an additional $6 million... but more than doubling it? Are you kidding me?!! That takes some serious balls... and I can only hope this doesn't make it past the full council. If it does, then any Alderman who votes for it should have someone run against them in the next election. This is absolute madness.
Great Job former Mayor Didier... I guess now we know why you got that cushy job in Milwaukee County.
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On the article Developer Asks Tosa for $2M for Parking in ABB Building
Nick Schweitzer
12:21 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Reply@Namaste and Betty Rubble - I believe they also have to go before the Planning Commission which is Feb. 11 at 7 PM. They also take public input there. They don't have an agenda up yet, but that's the most logical step in the process.
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On the article Should Online Commenters Be Allowed to Remain Anonymous?
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On the article Developer Asks Tosa for $2M for Parking in ABB Building
Nick Schweitzer
1:19 pm on Thursday, January 31, 2013
ReplyPerhaps, if when the TIF was originally debated under Jill Didier's watch, she hadn't been so concerned with bringing in different Professors from the University to talk about the magic they'd perform there, and people had actually done there job and looked at the finances and the potential risks, all these costs could have been identified up front. Then, when people were voting for the TIF, they would have known what they were putting the City in debt for.
Instead, nobody from the Common Council went to the Eschweiler buildings until well after the TIF was proposed and the land was sold to UWM. Somehow, nobody thought that the area for development would shrink, even though the DOT had had an easement on that land for years, and they were already proposing taking that land for the Zoo Interchange construction.
And finally, nobody seemed to consider that structured parking would be requested, even though previous plans for that land had considered structured parking a necessity.
NONE of those things were taken into account when the $12 million was created for that TIF. Everyone just said... La la la... it'll be fine if we just do sewer and a road. Don't worry.
This was either incompetence on the part of the City and our representatives, or outright deceit... knowing that once we were committed... we'd have to spend more to make it viable.
Nick Schweitzer
8:29 am on Monday, March 11, 2013
Here is an explanation behind the Tide thefts from the New York Magazine... really good article on it http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/