City Hires Consultant to Study Thrift Store Issue—Upholds Ban
In spite of some sharp words from Council Member Dan Kealey, the Burnsville City Council refused to reconsider a temporary moratorium on thrift stores and agreed to pay a consulting firm up to $13,300 to study the matter.
Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Sign up for our daily newsletter| Blog for us Tuesday night, Council Member Dan Kealey was very much alone at the dais. He was also very angry. "This is bad government. This is something I've witnessed in other towns and it disgusts me," Kealey said during a work session centering on a ban on new thrift stores. "We don't do that to businesses in Burnsville, I thought." But Kealey's strong words failed to move his colleagues on the council. Kealey was met with silence when he motioned to terminate the moratorium and instead govern thrift stores under the city's existing second hand dealer ordinance. Thus ended round two of a battle that began in late December, when The Arc Greater Twin Cities …
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