Coffee Table Lounge Expansion?
Ξ December 2nd, 2007 | → | ∇ 90041, Coffee, Drinks, Food, Night Life |
NIMBYism is alive and well along
1. Without building a parking lot, the adjacent surface streets would be flooded with a parking nightmare, making it impossible for residents to find a spot. Driveways would be blocked, and patron’s cars would be parked on manicured lawns.
2. Patrons would drive drunk in the neighborhood, fight, urinate, vomit, and copulate in the streets and alleys as a result of alcohol (finding used condoms was blamed on the Chalet during the Fat Dog Lounge debacle).
Again, these are issues that need to be addressed between neighbors and the business, but none of them should prevent The Coffee Table Lounge from opening. To the parking concerns, as much as residents might feel they have a right to those spots, I don’t believe they do. They don’t own the street or the curb and like it or not, I have just as much a right to park in front of their house as they do. Their driveways and garages are for storing their cars. The street is a public resource paid for by all and therfore available to all. The remainder of the parking concerns, while valid, can be solved with a simple call to a tow truck. The first time my car is towed from in front of a driveway is the last time I park it there. Plus, towing companies just love to come and nab illegally parked cars.
As for the behavior of drunken patrons, nobody wants to live on
Hopefully, some dialogue and reason will prevail between neighbors and the Coffee Table’s owners so that the entire neighborhood can benefit. There is not a bottomless supply of businesses willing to move into the neighborhood and constant rejection and unreasonable Conditional Use Permits will dry that pool up quickly.
on December 4th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Beautifully said I couldn’t agree with you more.
on January 7th, 2008 at 2:55 am
yay more bars!
hang the neighbors, burn their crops, salt their fields, banish their offspring.
/lounge….sounds dangerous…save me