GT Obstructive RED TAPE Removed for 2

City Admits to having Obstructive Red Tape:

Today there was a small report of the City of Grand Terrace facilitating the move of 2 businesses from property where High School #3 is to be located to new locations within the City of Grand Terrace.

The Action includes the locating one of the businesses on City Owned or one may think Redevelopment Agency Owned Property.

A couple of items come to mind here. One the use of Eminent Domain to build a School is an Appropriate use of that Governmental Power and this blog does not object to its use in this example.

HOWEVER: WHEN Eminent Domain is used the Agency using such power should be held accountable to make the displaced Individual or Business is made WHOLE or Better than WHOLE. IN THIS Displacecement the burden should be upon the CJUSD to make the arrangements.

The City of Grand Terrace should not be playing favourites in making a relocation easier for these businesses. IF there is a way to make it easier for these businesses than ALL similar transactions should be made EASY. The wording suggests as many suspect the City is involved in being Obstructionist to some, Rude to Others, and just plain Excessively Accommodating or in Bed With Others.

The Political or Economic Whimsy of the application of City Code, and Process and Procedure is a form of interjecting the Government into the area of Trade and Ultimately could be a Restraint of Trade or Unfair Competition Situation which is against the basic principals of our National and State Government Laws and Regulations.

No Bid Contracts for some, and for others excessive code inspections and applications to lease pre-existing business locations and operations for others.

With the posture the city has taken in regard to directing Cal Trans as to where the freeway and off ramps will be will the City Accommodate the Relocation of Cal Skate, and the other impacted businesses and the Elementary School they so clearly indicate a desire to have removed and rezoned to Commercial.