This reminds me of another struggle in SF to get an ice-cream parlor approved. "The NYT's Scott James recounts the insane red-tape endured by Juliet Pries, an

This reminds me of another struggle in SF to get an ice-cream parlor approved. "The NYT's Scott James recounts the insane red-tape endured by Juliet Pries, an entrepreneur who decided to open an ice-cream parlour in San Francisco's Cole Valley. She had to pay rent on an empty storefront for over two years while the necessary permits were processed, and tens of thousands of dollars in fees (including the cost of producing a detailed map of nearby businesses, which the city itself seemed not to have)." https://boingboing.net/2012/02/04/on-the-horrors-of-getting-appr.html https://boingboing.net/2012/02/04/on-the-horrors-of-getting-...