New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg has announced efforts to improve small business relations, NY1 News reports. The mayor unveiled more than a dozen measures intended to make it easier for smaller companies to comply with the city’s regulations.
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The new efforts include a Business Owner’s Bill of Rights and ways to help companies avoid automatic fines. Businesses will also now be able to contest or settle violations without appearing in person, the station says.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking from a dry cleaners in Brooklyn, said that if the city “want[s] more entrepreneurs to open and expand small businesses, [it has] to find ways to make it easier to do business in our city. And that’s exactly what we are doing.”
According to NY1 News, the new measures have been created in response to input from more than 200 small business owners. The entrepreneurs responded to the City Council’s Regulatory Review Panel, which was set up to modernize the rule-making process.
what we need to do is actully go to iowa in the hundreds and thousands. this will make an impression.
Message to bloomy: you want to improve relaitions? Try lowering taxes curbing tickets and fix the zoning process.
What a joke – remove all the overregulation and you won’t need MORE taxpayer funded workers to navigate them. Drop excess taxes and maybe some new business could get started.
perhaps they should stop giving tickets to anyone that is trying to do business with someone in NY. For me I would rather drive out of the city and not have to worry about turning my back.
How abt lowering rates of water bills (that incresed 20 percent lately)/re tax (that gets thrown on to renters etc), put a max of 50 dollars on any parking ticket.
This issue isn’t so complicated. There are easy solutions.
Now i see Shop Rite will open a new suprmarket in Wmsbg. and Walmart is getting ready for a new mega store in Gateway plaza in Brooklyn…Those mega stores will drive out small stores and most major stores have headquarters in other states so our state dosent get a penny of their profits..Maybe the city council should vote down those pprojects we have a better chance local stores to profit…