The College Terrace Center at 2100 El Camino Real in Palo Alto. After the owner was fined for lacking a grocery store, as the city had required, a new store has opened up on the ground floor. Google photo.
The former owner of the First Republic Bank building at 2100 El Camino Real in Palo Alto paid $226,803 in fines to the city for not having a grocery store at the College Terrace neighborhood building, according to City Attorney Molly Stump.
Stump told the Post in an email that the city fined AGB-PACT …
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Fined by the city for not having a grocery store, what’s wrong with this picture? We’re living at a time when you can be fined for operating your business (“non-essential” business) or for not operating a business. How any of this is legal is beyond me. And please don’t tell me that the owners made a deal with the city under penalty of fines as a condition for receiving a business license, because that itself would be problematic for many reasons – unconstitutional condition, taking, due process of law, equal protection, etc.
Fined by the city for not having a grocery store, what’s wrong with this picture? We’re living at a time when you can be fined for operating your business (“non-essential” business) or for not operating a business. How any of this is legal is beyond me. And please don’t tell me that the owners made a deal with the city under penalty of fines as a condition for receiving a business license, because that itself would be problematic for many reasons – unconstitutional condition, taking, due process of law, equal protection, etc.