Comments for Orange County Business Council | OCBC http://www.ocbc.org The Leading Voice of Business Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:24:02 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Squirrel by Madison http://www.ocbc.org/squirrel/#comment-235 Madison Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:24:02 +0000 http://74.55.52.82/~ocbc2011/?p=1143#comment-235 Love that movie! I would love to have some government tax breaks while I start my franchise. http://orangecountymtznovember.eventbrite.com/ Love that movie! I would love to have some government tax breaks while I start my franchise.
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]]> Comment on Adult Leadership in Irvine for the Nation to Follow by Unbelievable http://www.ocbc.org/adult-leadership-in-irvine-for-the-nation-to-follow/#comment-164 Unbelievable Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:54:20 +0000 http://www.ocbc.org/?p=4820#comment-164 The Great Park is from land that formerly was used for El Toro Marine Base. It was not touched for years because everybody knows about the toxic waste and contaminated underground water. Has that all some how disappeared? Money is nice but what about the people that are going to live there? The Great Park is from land that formerly was used for El Toro Marine Base. It was not touched for years because everybody knows about the toxic waste and contaminated underground water.

Has that all some how disappeared?

Money is nice but what about the people that are going to live there?

]]> Comment on Restoring California Competitiveness: Let My People Go! by Diane Amendola http://www.ocbc.org/restoring-california-competitiveness-let-my-people-go-2/#comment-130 Diane Amendola Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:13:21 +0000 http://www.ocbc.org/?p=4343#comment-130 More Nannism: first CO2 monitors, fitted sheets, and now animals again. The City of Irvine is drafting a 3 part law that will rob the Orange County of much needed revenue and impact the business community and residents. Irvine has no animal problems and its shelter often has empty cages. 1. They propose to ban animal exhibitions in the Great Park. Animal exhibitions such as petting zoos, rodeos and circuses are as American as “apple pie” and are educational and fun for families. They bring needed revenue into the community. The City of Long Beach hosted the American Kennel Club’s Eukanuba Dog Show last year. That Show brought approximately $20+ million dollars into the Long Beach community last year and has become an international event. As a taxpayer I wonder why Irvine would wish to eliminate a revenue source from Orange County with this Animal ban. 2. It includes a ban on the sale of dogs and cats at pet shops. The city only has one pet shop that sells dogs and cats. The business has been at the Spectrum for years, why are they attempting to restrict their sales? Pet shops offer a service to the citizens of Irvine and the surrounding communities where they can buy animals that are regulated by Federal, State and local laws. What other kinds of businesses or products might the city object to next? 3. Lastly, the drafting of a punitive law that demands mandatory spay or neuter of any animal picked up by the City of Irvine 3 times in its entire life. (Have they never heard of a gardener leaving the gate open or a small child leaving a door open? Accidents happen.) These are serious surgeries that have no relationship to animals getting loose or being returned to their owners. WHO is promoting these laws and regulations in a city that has no animal problems? These laws will rob businesses, residents, taxpayers of Orange County of needed revenue and a central location to purchase a puppy or kitten. However it would remove competition from the shelter and rescues that are selling animals. There are many reasons people can not buy a shelter dog or cat and allergies may be at the top of the list. With the threat of lost revenues to our communities will our business community and residents let their voices be heard by the City Council and the Great Park Board on these local issues? Or is it more nanny government for us? More Nannism: first CO2 monitors, fitted sheets, and now animals again. The City of Irvine is drafting a 3 part law that will rob the Orange County of much needed revenue and impact the business community and residents.

Irvine has no animal problems and its shelter often has empty cages.
1. They propose to ban animal exhibitions in the Great Park. Animal exhibitions such as petting zoos, rodeos and circuses are as American as “apple pie” and are educational and fun for families. They bring needed revenue into the community.

The City of Long Beach hosted the American Kennel Club’s Eukanuba Dog Show last year. That Show brought approximately $20+ million dollars into the Long Beach community last year and has become an international event. As a taxpayer I wonder why Irvine would wish to eliminate a revenue source from Orange County with this Animal ban.

2. It includes a ban on the sale of dogs and cats at pet shops. The city only has one pet shop that sells dogs and cats. The business has been at the Spectrum for years, why are they attempting to restrict their sales? Pet shops offer a service to the citizens of Irvine and the surrounding communities where they can buy animals that are regulated by Federal, State and local laws. What other kinds of businesses or products might the city object to next?

3. Lastly, the drafting of a punitive law that demands mandatory spay or neuter of any animal picked up by the City of Irvine 3 times in its entire life. (Have they never heard of a gardener leaving the gate open or a small child leaving a door open? Accidents happen.) These are serious surgeries that have no relationship to animals getting loose or being returned to their owners. WHO is promoting these laws and regulations in a city that has no animal problems?

These laws will rob businesses, residents, taxpayers of Orange County of needed revenue and a central location to purchase a puppy or kitten. However it would remove competition from the shelter and rescues that are selling animals. There are many reasons people can not buy a shelter dog or cat and allergies may be at the top of the list.

With the threat of lost revenues to our communities will our business community and residents let their voices be heard by the City Council and the Great Park Board on these local issues? Or is it more nanny government for us?

]]> Comment on Can You See Clearly Now? by Jackie Hare http://www.ocbc.org/can-you-see-clearly-now/#comment-7 Jackie Hare Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:17:25 +0000 http://www.ocbc.org/?p=2509#comment-7 You are accurate in the over-regulation effect on business and how it effects the "whole"! I have a perfect example. I am getting permits on 9 homes in a local O.C. City. The permit fees are 130,000 and the school fees or 98,000. This equals over $25,000 per dwelling. This does not count for fees for planning, grading, environmental or map recordation. This makes it so hard to set a sales price that meets the current buyer market. The project is building a park but the building still has to pay the city park fee of $47,000. Thanks for all you do for the industry and the home buying families in California. You are accurate in the over-regulation effect on business and how it effects the “whole”! I have a perfect example. I am getting permits on 9 homes in a local O.C. City. The permit fees are 130,000 and the school fees or 98,000. This equals over $25,000 per dwelling. This does not count for fees for planning, grading, environmental or map recordation. This makes it so hard to set a sales price that meets the current buyer market. The project is building a park but the building still has to pay the city park fee of $47,000.

Thanks for all you do for the industry and the home buying families in California.

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