Ignore them and get rewarded for ignoring them seven years later. Even the wording, the legalization, implies its ln illegal for seven years. I urge you not to pass it. Make the conditional use process mean something in this city. Thank you. I am david and i have known william for for three years and i am a small businessman myself owning Retail Stores and in my opinion a conditional use permit allows exactly for what is going on there. If youre allowed to buy a bottle of wine or taste it before you purchase it thats exactly what is going on there. Its a casual environment compared to some of the clubos polk street and having lived in the area i really like the environment of it. I think its a great use of it, and i think it really does clean up a lot of what is going on down there, and i think hes doing the neighborhood a Great Service by toning it down because if you ever stepped there on a friday or saturday night its scary and thats a nice quiet place and it does feel like your liv
Is to maintain and sustain a business in a block that i am very familiar with because i had a friend that lived at the hotel and i will tell you walking down there yesterday its a vastly improved block. The businesses are looking wonderful, the architecture and the decor and i will turn it over. Good afternoon. I am william biglow and i am the owner of the poor house. In 2005 i came before you to request a permit and since that time i have had no complaints by the Police Department, the Fire Department and visited by the alcohol controller and we got two under age decoys and got letters of accommodation for catching the decoy. Today i am asking permission to legitimize my business and operate as a wine bar and retail store. My place is not the place that has any adverse impact on the community. Its an extension of somebodys living room and sit down and enjoy conversation and become educated about wine. I have met with the neighbors and the residential and the commercial neighbors. Ther