Linda and I want to open a little shop to sell books, vintage and antique items and handmade gifts...that's all. We don't want to open a brothel, or a business that creates loud noise or pollution.
And we would like to make this little low-key venture in a building that was created over a hundred-years ago for the express purpose of being a store front in the business district also created expressly for small businesses.
So you would think, given this information, that it would be a fairly painless process in our small Pennsylvania burg to set about opening our shop and start the, not inconsiderable, process of fixing up the place and stocking it with merchandise...but you would be wrong.
Just to start the process requires zoning reviews and plot plans and parking waivers and Planning Board approval meetings...ahhh. And seriously, that is just the first step. So this is my rant...OK, now I'm done.
Tomorrow morning the other blond and I are going to set out early to a few local yard sales and do what we love, hunt for stuff other people are looking to buy. I am remembering why having virtual store is a whole lot less complicated than a real one. No Planning Board meetings or plot plans required.
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