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| Ice cream parlor permit hassles chilling |
| 2013-09-16 |
| Whaty comes of voting in silly people to run a city. [SFGATE] Tuesday is inspection day for building owner John Vicars. He's got a commercial property on College Avenue, right in the heart of Oakland's busiest shopping district. His quest is simple: to see an ice cream parlor opened on the ground floor of the building. But his journey has been a regulatory nightmare. It's taken him nine months to prepare 1,700 square feet of retail space to the city's satisfaction - at least to where they were satisfied enough to actually come out to inspect it. It all started in December, when Vicars forked over $3,500 for the right to apply for a conditional use permit that would allow him to change uses in the space occupied by the Great Harvest Bread Co. since the early 1990s. He plans to lease the space to Smitten, a locally owned ice cream shop with a single store in San Francisco's Hayes Valley. Oakland officials told Vicars the permit application process would take about three months. But when he submitted his plans to the city, the questions just kept on coming. |
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