We knew this, but it's nice to see the media call it out.
Also, St. John's treats pedestrian streets as special events, like a festival. They pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for security guards at EVERY. SINGLE. INTERSECTION. Meanwhile, most cities do nothing but throw up a barrier of some kind.
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The capital city charges nearly six times as much for a sidewalk patio than Canada’s largest city.
That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business on concerns surrounding municipal business policies in the Atlantic region.
According to CFIB’s Atlantic Municipal Report, the cost of a sidewalk patio permit in Atlantic Canada ranges from $131 in Moncton, to $2,690 in St. John’s—for an average of $995 across the region.
If St. John’s were not factored in, the average permit cost drops to $657. That’s still higher than the price of a sidewalk permit in Toronto which is $458.
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https://vocm.com/2023/11/02/new-repo...-than-toronto/