Reply #6: Seriously! [View All]

[ManOutOfTime]

Our main problem in SJ is the lack of sales-tax-generating businesses; quality-of-life-wise, our problem is parking, followed by traffic. 10, 20, or 50 small light industrial sites will not make a dent in the quality of life in this city. Interestingly, there is no limit on tobacco smoke shops or hydroponic supplies stores (there's a new one on a formerly blighted corner lot at Montgomery & Auzurais), for example, and it seems to me both of these uses are more impactful on the quality of life due to traffic and parking.

If the CC has a problem with a given use they should have the courage to say so rather than resorting to non-arguments. To the extent tobacco and alcohol sales are limited because of what the products are, there are legitimate reasons. Cap clubs because you think they are undesirable? Vote your conscience, CC! Maybe you'll face a challenge you from the Pot Club ticket in the fall, maybe (probably) you won't ... ;-)