Linkin5 wrote:S33 wrote:icejammer wrote:OMG, is the Mayor actually grieving over losing a Sam's Club? Seriously? How many do we already have in the metro? We certainly don't need one on every corner....
She's trying to keep the sales tax inside city limits, instead of Sams building at 180th and Maple (or wherever). It's a smart move.
Have you ever been to L street marketplace? There is a reason these design standard are in place.
If you honestly think losing a Sam's club or any |expletive| poor planned box store is more important than keeping proper standards so that clusterf*ck strip malls don't move in, then I really don't have much more to say.
Wow, are the colors pretty in your world?
We live in a world where there is a thing called money. Â When you have a lot of it, life is better. Â When a city has a lot of it, they can do more stuff for the people who live there.
Cities get money from taxes. Â Taxes that are collected inside their city limits.
Land exists outside the city that is not in their limits, and stores there don't have to pay taxes.
Because we want the stores to like being inside the city limits enough to stay and pay, we want to make sure that we have zoning and planning regs that are functional and not too onerous so we can see new stores open in Omaha and not LaVista.
We don't need to have a total lack of standards, but we tried the neo-stalinist mode in the 70's with health care capital purchases (anything over a certain $ amount had to be approved by the state, even X-ray machines) and it added layers of bureaucracy, but did it really help? Â
All Stothert said was that she wanted to be sure that the standards were workable. Â Seems sensible to me.