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Restaurant owners tell supervisors permits, fees and safety are driving closures and vacancies
Summary
At a Sept. 16 committee hearing owners described long conditional‑use and permitting timelines, rising fees and costs, employee housing shortages and safety concerns; supervisors asked departments for fee and program data and to return with proposals.
Restaurant owners and operators used the committee’s public comment period to give concrete examples of how permitting delays, fee increases and local conditions are affecting operations and hiring.
Several owners said conditional‑use or discretionary reviews have taken 12–16 months. Angel Davis told the committee one conditional‑use review took 13 months and a second took 16 months, a timeline that she said made survival difficult. Kim Alter and others described multi-month permitting delays that…
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