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Mr. Kirrie next addressed the statement that "The Board also <br />agreed that only those businesses which could produce evidence <br />showing that they had maintained active occupational licenses for <br />the five years immediately prior to February 24, 1987 would <br />be grandfathered." As far as he was concerned, the five year <br />recommendation is some kind of hat trick, and he felt it is <br />immoral, if not out and out illegal, when the Board tells people <br />at one meeting that "we are going to make you a valid conforming <br />use - please come down and get your occupational licenses" and <br />then when they do go down and buy the licenses, all of a sudden <br />we have a recommendation to remove these licenses. Until very <br />recently there has been no requirement at the Tax Collector's <br />office to determine whether the location was legal for the <br />license being purchased. One of the people who moved in about <br />three years ago, went down and got a license because of this very <br />situation, and now has it in jeopardy because of this action. <br />Mr. Kirrie noted that staff indicated that some of the <br />licenses had not been renewed for three years, but as he <br />understood it, if they are not renewed for that year, they are <br />dropped from the print-out in the Collector's Office. He also <br />felt that a time limit of 45 days to comply with the grandfather- <br />ing provision is not adequate and that a period of one year would <br />be more appropriate. Not everyone gets the Press Journal in <br />their home town in Hoboken, N.J., to know what is happening here. <br />Mr. Kirrie then quoted "It was the consensus of the <br />Commissioners that the ordinance, as presented by staff, should <br />be modified..., and the requirement of proof of a valid occupa- <br />tional license since February 24, 1982, be replaced with ...proof <br />of a valid license prior only to February 24, 1987." Mr. Kirrie <br />was of the opinion that all licenses to the very date of the <br />repeal of this ordinance should be legal. He did not see how you <br />can go to court and say we are going to go back and pull out <br />licenses at a certain date and time, which he felt is a very <br />arbitrary approach. <br />JAN 19 1988 <br />49 <br />BOCK 70 P CE 609 <br />