Protected Asset Classes in Mount Gretna

Recently, the MG Borough Council paid the borough lawyer to work on a morals-guiding "rental ordinance". Now, among some other "guvment takings" that brilliant piss of work included, it gave the guvment--here, Chuck Allwein and/or William Care,  the right to come into your property/home to make sure that you did not have more than two adults sleeping in any one room. Absent from the proposed ordinance is any definition of when "sleeping" hours begin or end. That scenario--watching Bill Care or Charles Allwein, come knocking at 2a.m. in the morning on any of our doors to count adults, seems like it may be worth the price of admission, but it reminds me that we already have entertainment venues in the borough. (And you think Bill Care would have had his fill of going to his neighbors' houses and pursuing an interest in the adults and beds therein after what I heard happened in the 70's.)

And that makes me wonder why Chuck is hands-off those venues....because those venues really do attract a lot of unhealthy folk to our small and intimate neighborhood. They attract boatloads of cars that take up our own parking spaces, park on our lush green park grass, costing us a boatload of tax dollars maintaining the parking infrastructure and repairing the parks. So why isn't Chuck leading the complaint about those scallywags and using OUR money to pay for the development of an ordinance that makes the venues tell us the names of who their visitors are, and the names and dates of who is going to be using OUR parking availability, and crafting a "licensing" regime that controls and inspects against improper morals--including parking on park areas, and including feeding children sugary, chemical-laden, junk foods? Oh, that's because its Chuck's own activities with his leased-property that we are talking about--property that he practically got from US for FREE. And you bet that he intends to squash any competing property interests that infringe on him maximizing his Jiggershop profits. The less parking spaces taken up by re-uniting families in rented cottages, and the less re-uniting families and other revelers cooking it up in a cottage kitchen, the more capacity for business for Chuck's Jiggershop.

Funny, he doesn't seem to care that he stole from us borough residents the enjoyment of a real rental income from OUR Chautauqua property. And now he wants to make sure that we can't enjoy a rental income from our individually owned Chautauqua-situated property.

 How did he steal property from us, you ask. Well, the Jiggershop sits on commonly-owned Chautauqua property (commonly owned as in the shareholder/residents of the Chautauqua (which is the same place as the Borough), and Chuck Allwein--Borough Council President, used Borough Lawyer Keith Kilgore to negotiate a commercial land-lease for the Chautauqua land that his Jiggershop is on by negotiating with the Chautauqua, whose lawyer is also Keith Kilgore. Can you believe their luck--or would they want us to call it "skill", at negotiating a c. $2 per square foot restaurant land lease when the going market rate, last I asked the experts, was more like $20 per square foot, and for, oh, what was the term--a hundred years?