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Cloudcroft trustees made a decision or possibly an exception to the standard business practices of the city center and in doing so set a precedent without considering longer term consequences to the established businesses within the downtown district.
The trustee's including the mayor approved with one, Trustee that being, Maynard, opposed, recently a street vendor to operate on the street of Burro Street, Cloudcroft’s MainStreet.
The local businesses are in an uproar because by letting one open without clear cut policies, procedures or ordinances they opened themselves to allowing others. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Consumers may like having sidewalk or permanent street side vendors at first. But without regulations, policies and a plan it could look like a 3rd World Flea market.
The bigger picture is Cloudcroft could end up with street vendors selling clothing, jewelry, barbeque, anything with little to no oversight, tax collection or safety considerations etc. The street vendors would potentially be in Cloudcroft from may to September or October during the time permanent businesses make the money needed to get them the winter months when it's slow up. Competition is not always a bad thing but street fair competition without a plan and oversight could devalue the storefronts of established businesses that have spent years building their brand, image and reputation.
Cloudcroft could end up looking like a flea market during the summer and permanent businesses going out of business due to the overhead and regulatory constraints they operate under verses a short term street vendor.
The village has allowed a person to sell lemonade that works over at OCEC (Otero County Electric Coop) as a construction and engineering assistant by the name of Kathy Powell. A lot of businesses believe it's favoritism. Is it? The village needs to answer with regulations and a plan.
A Merchant told asking not to be named for fear of retaliation stated to the AlamogordoTownNews.com, “it is different up here in our mountain town because a lot of people come here in the summer time, from Texas and elsewhere and street vendors can under-sale, underprice and don’t have the overhead every shop up here has because they don't have the regulations nor building and rental expense and upkeep. Street vendors don't draw people to Cloudcroft the weather does.”
Will there be an onslaught of street vendors applying to land in the Cloudcroft city center? Time will tell but when politicians make random policies and don’t consider the bigger picture to established businesses nor seek their input then trouble is sure to brew. Stay tuned this is an evolving story…
Patchy rain nearby, with a high of 86 and low of 63 degrees. Don't forget your umbrella! Sunny during the morning, thundery outbreaks in nearby for the afternoon, sunny during the evening, partly cloudy overnight.
What, no outrage for this poor victim of federal law enforcement who only acted in self defense?
i would make a polite suggestion; please describe the guys working on the store fronts as facade crews.
the term facade squad makes me think of another group of masked federal agents dispatched to do the trump regimes' dirty work.
If I don't feel like sitting at a table, will the Oppenheimer have a Geiger counter?
Torrez engaged in another frivolous lawsuit.
As I've stated previously, the grants in question were a demonstration program. Of course Dems like Torrez only know one meaning of the word demonstration, but this grant was not intended to provide funding for protests, it was a trial program.
I'm calling on the Secretary of Agriculture to change the official designation of the Lincoln from National Forest, to National Ashtray.
It's designation should be more in line with it's actual use.
does this mean that you don't have a personal relationship with brooke rollins? saying that, has pam bondi ever gotten back in touch with you regarding the source of funding for all those nasty protests against dear leader's royal inclinations? couple weeks back, you told us that news was going to break immedia
After looking at New Mexico election law, a person may run as a candidate for office in the primary of the party they are registered with, without first seeking that party's approval.
this is just another echo of the fight to recognize the health risks of exposure to agent orange in the decades after the vietnam war.
Laymans translation, Mr. Sharp is having some problems proving his clients contracted cancer from PFAS.
Notice he's not crying about coverage for known cancer causing agents, but PRESUMED cancer causing agents. That's because to date, there is no known PROOF of any adverse health effects from PFAS.
there's neighbor john, right on schedule. he has already declared his willingness for other folks to be exposed to well established risks in environmental situations - just as long as he can't see them from where he lives.
So, Miyagishima is going after Republican and Independent voters instead of the Democrat base in a blue state who's election laws are heavily biased towards Democrats. Tells you something about the state of the Democrat Party.