Editorial: Blame nanny city bureaucracy for S.F. s ice cream wars. Not Garden Creamery
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Jason Yu in front of the vacant Mission District space where he tried to open an ice cream shop.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
When a San Francisco man’s modest dream of selling soft serve in the Mission curdled into debt and frustration, the internet found a scapegoat: A neighboring ice cream monger who thwarted the competition before it started.
Granted, the owners of Garden Creamery, who sent the would-be proprietor of Matcha n’ More on a no-expenses-paid, round-and-round trip through San Francisco’s byzantine bureaucracy, don’t come out smelling like waffle cones. But the bigger problem is our over-regulated, under-governed nanny city, which allows virtually any objection to anything to trigger costly delays that too often defeat all but the wealthy and connected.