City Hall has now focused its efforts on making sure business owners are complying with the rules and regulations set upon them when they were approved to open in their locations.
After the business owner is visited in a surprise inspection by a building and safety code compliance officer, he or she is handed a bill for $500. City officials say business owners have to be charged to offset the inspection program.
So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Should business owners pay to have their property inspected by City Hall? Why or why not?”
Call (310) 285-8106 with your responses before Friday at 5 p.m. We’ll print them in the weekend edition. Please limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think about the wording of your response.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 18, 2004. Read the original PDF.