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Old 07-16-2009, 08:11 PM   #1
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Vancouver proposing bylaw changes to help businesses during Olympics
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The City of Vancouver is looking at ways to make it easier for businesses to make money during the 2010 Olympic Games. Bylaw changes could mean our downtown core will see activity--and spending--at all hours.

According to City Councillor Geoff Meggs, the changes include restaurant patios being able to stay open two hours later--to 1 a.m.; an increase of temporary taxis as well as cabs from outside Vancouver; and deliveries allowed overnight.

Meggs says the hope is that people will stay longer and spend more. "It will be great to see people have a good time and spend a little bit more money, use more of our accommodations and see more tourist attractions. These changes will just make it easier for businesses and residents to function properly."

Meggs says if the changes are successful, it's possible they could be revisited after the Games. If approved by council, the by-law changes would be in effect from January 1 through March 31, 2010.

The proposed by-law changes include:

*Temporarily increasing the number of taxi and limousine licences
to make it easier for residents and visitors to move around the city.

*Extending the hours of restaurant patio service as well as
restaurant seating capacity.

*Requiring the timely removal of graffiti and unauthorized
commercial advertising on construction-site fencing and other sites.

*Prohibiting weapons and alcohol at the City's live entertainment
sites and introducing security screenings at the entrance to the sites.

*Allowing trucks to make deliveries 24 hours a day in the
downtown area.

*Adjusting the start time for refuse pick up each day.
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Never happen. Makes too much sense. Vancouver has a reputation to uphold as the "No-Fun City".
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Woah.. hang on a sec. Does this means weapons and alcohol are currently allowed at these live venues? Time to dig out the shotgun and bring my half-full bottle of JD to Bard on the Beach!
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Woah.. hang on a sec. Does this means weapons and alcohol are currently allowed at these live venues? Time to dig out the shotgun and bring my half-full bottle of JD to Bard on the Beach!

Either that or they are going allow them during the Olympics
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Damn, why can't they extend bar hours?
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ment to say allow, but yeah seriously, bullshit 6 meter rule.

Canada may not have alot of smokers, but USA and Europe.... infact everyone in fucking europe smokes.
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ment to say allow, but yeah seriously, bullshit 6 meter rule.

Canada may not have alot of smokers, but USA and Europe.... infact everyone in fucking europe smokes.
Not entirely true. Germany, yes. But even France and UK have banned smoking, and you do need the popular vote to push laws like this through..

The 6m rule imo is the single best thing to happen. I don't care if you smoke, but don't blow it into my face when I'm walking into/out of an establishment. Oh, and did I mention that smokers love to spit all over the place when they smoke too?
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Not entirely true. Germany, yes. But even France and UK have banned smoking, and you do need the popular vote to push laws like this through..

The 6m rule imo is the single best thing to happen. I don't care if you smoke, but don't blow it into my face when I'm walking into/out of an establishment. Oh, and did I mention that smokers love to spit all over the place when they smoke too?
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Not entirely true. Germany, yes. But even France and UK have banned smoking, and you do need the popular vote to push laws like this through..

The 6m rule imo is the single best thing to happen. I don't care if you smoke, but don't blow it into my face when I'm walking into/out of an establishment. Oh, and did I mention that smokers love to spit all over the place when they smoke too?
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Not entirely true. Germany, yes. But even France and UK have banned smoking, and you do need the popular vote to push laws like this through..

The 6m rule imo is the single best thing to happen. I don't care if you smoke, but don't blow it into my face when I'm walking into/out of an establishment. Oh, and did I mention that smokers love to spit all over the place when they smoke too?
I see you have never been to europe.
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I see you have never been to europe.
Wrong. Backpacked there. How about you?

Mind you, Europeans are way more polite than North Americans for some reason. If everyone stopped spitting and blowing 2nd hand smoke into everyone else's faces, I'm sure there wouldn't be such drastic measures getting passed here.
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Awesome, because you know everyone wants to be out on the patio at 1am in fucking FEBRUARY in Vancouver.
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