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	<title>Comments on: Fast Food and Zoning</title>
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		<title>By: Shopping For The Best Golf Equipment - Sports</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shopping For The Best Golf Equipment - Sports</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another typically noticed error is to produce a personalized profile with 1 e-mail and then produce a organization webpage with a second e-mail log-in simply because they don&#039;t want their Facebook pals to know they are linked with the business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another typically noticed error is to produce a personalized profile with 1 e-mail and then produce a organization webpage with a second e-mail log-in simply because they don&#8217;t want their Facebook pals to know they are linked with the business.</p>
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		<title>By: Goji Buy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Goji Buy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great site. Me and my friend had a bet about which site was better. I thought your article was better, but she thought this post on <a href="http://www.acaigojiberries.com" rel="nofollow">goji berry supplements</a> was better. We asked a couple of family memebers who had not seen either webpage before to look them both thoroughly. Majority chose your site. I knew I was right all along :)</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Littlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry Littlefield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just another opportunity to harrass selected businesses and extract bribes.  And I say this as a 13-year veteran of city planning, with particular knowledge of the city&#039;s use regulations.

In 1961, the idea was to specifically manage what type of businesses should be on what part of a local commercial street, like suburban shopping centers.  So the zoning on such streets varies block by block, and thousands of harmless businesses are &quot;illegal&quot; because they are on the wrong side of the street.  And, on local commercial streets joks and poetry are not permitted in the outer boroughs, only in Manhattan, though music is permitted under certain circumstances everywhere. 

The home occupation rules are also a mess:  home stock broking is specifically prohibited, home discos are not.

The only enforcement is when someone complains, generally because they are of the wrong race, or a business competitior, or because the landlord wants to evict a tenant with a lease.

A study to fix this was completed, and recommendations prepared, but the administration didn&#039;t want to go foward given the inevitable outcry to ban this or that.  Given this issue, perhaps they were right.

Getting back to obesity, what is the status of home economics/life skills training in our schools?  Do the kids learn how to cook, and have a healthy diet (and handle their personal finances, look for a job, read a map, raise a child, etc.)?  They aren&#039;t learning this at home, it seems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just another opportunity to harrass selected businesses and extract bribes.  And I say this as a 13-year veteran of city planning, with particular knowledge of the city&#8217;s use regulations.</p>
<p>In 1961, the idea was to specifically manage what type of businesses should be on what part of a local commercial street, like suburban shopping centers.  So the zoning on such streets varies block by block, and thousands of harmless businesses are &#8220;illegal&#8221; because they are on the wrong side of the street.  And, on local commercial streets joks and poetry are not permitted in the outer boroughs, only in Manhattan, though music is permitted under certain circumstances everywhere. </p>
<p>The home occupation rules are also a mess:  home stock broking is specifically prohibited, home discos are not.</p>
<p>The only enforcement is when someone complains, generally because they are of the wrong race, or a business competitior, or because the landlord wants to evict a tenant with a lease.</p>
<p>A study to fix this was completed, and recommendations prepared, but the administration didn&#8217;t want to go foward given the inevitable outcry to ban this or that.  Given this issue, perhaps they were right.</p>
<p>Getting back to obesity, what is the status of home economics/life skills training in our schools?  Do the kids learn how to cook, and have a healthy diet (and handle their personal finances, look for a job, read a map, raise a child, etc.)?  They aren&#8217;t learning this at home, it seems.</p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Wizard</title>
		<link>http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2006/06/26/fast-food-and-zoning/comment-page-1/#comment-7365</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Wizard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Scary, isn&#039;t it? I&#039;ve already set up my Google News Alerts to keep track of this one...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scary, isn&#8217;t it? I&#8217;ve already set up my Google News Alerts to keep track of this one&#8230;</p>
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