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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6289)	9/16/2007 3:26:27 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Laz, Once again: It was NOT Peet's bringing action to keep Starbuck's out; it was the merchants and citizenry of the San Francisco Richmond District who did not want a Starbuck's or any other cookie-cutter franchise in their neighborhood. - Holly

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6289)	9/18/2007 7:14:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13056

Adventures in Government Land Use Regulation: UCLA law professor Steve Bainbridge recounts the following personal experience with the LA land use bureaucracy: My wife and I wanted to put an addition on our house here in the City of Los Angeles. Our general contractor told us that the first thing we had to do was get up-to-date zoning and property information from the Building Pemits Department. He recommended that we hire a "fixer" who was used to dealing with the bureaucracy. That was 2 months ago. Today, we were informed by the City zoning department that they could not give us the necessary zoning information ... because, according to zoning records, our house does not exist! On top of which, the zoning folks also had no record of the street on which we live. I was speechless until it occurred to me to ask why, if our house doesn't exist, we have to pay property taxes and so on. The answer? "That's another department."... volokh.com