It seems like the small businessman gets the shaft again
when a big contractor like Sonny Bonacio wants the City to quash him.
The small businessman is the owner of the Fortunate Cup
building, who for over a year has been trying to get his permanent CO for his
building. Unfortunately for him the City
only grants him temporary CO’s. He gave
a reading of how the City has been treating him.
The City demanded that he plant a buffer of hedges and then
gave him a credit line (a regular City practice) of $20,000.00. The building owner wants to purchase the
empty lot next door for a parking lot and will make the lot ascetically
pleasing. The City and Planning Board
members beholding to Johnson & Bonacio- Cliff Van Wagner, Tom Lewis &
Howard Pinsley say no way to the purchase and in fact the owner must remove 16
parking from the existing lot. Now the
kicker, who lives in the back of the empty lot?
Why, none other than Sonny Bonacio’s mother. Also the City has recalled the credit line
(something that has not been done in the last 20 years at least).
Business in the
building creates sales tax money for the City, so there must be a reason for
the hard ball game. The main players,
the Planning Board members and Johnson & Sutton-Dowd cannot risk upsetting
Bonacio.
