EDITORIAL
They have the space. They have the idea. They are trying to be entrepreneurs.
Now they need the city to bend a little.
Three young local Kyle residents have been butting their heads against the proverbial city hall wall, trying to get approval to open a snowcone stand during the summer months.
The chilly reception they got from city staff comes from some strange regulations in city ordinances that require the young entrepreneurs – as a mobile food vendor – to sell only from a permanent structure with an engineered foundation.
What?
Under these ordinances, they could open the window in the old fertilizer building on the lot they have rented to put their clean trailer and sell from there.
But they can’t sell from their trailer.
The city council needs to take steps to make the necessary changes to allow such businesses. According to the Guardian Life Small Business Institute, female entrepreneurs will add 5.5 million jobs to this economy through 2018. Keep in mind that Hewlett Packard, Dell and Apple were all started by entrepreneurs.
Researchers have also found that entrepreneurship has the greatest impact on the county in which the business is started, with surrounding counties getting a bit of job growth spillover.
The only way to start a large business is to create a small one and nurture it. The last thing Kyle needs to do is stand in the way. If safety and health concerns are covered, the city should encourage such endeavors.
Our economic health would certainly be the better, with the city, county and school district reaping the taxation benefit.
Damé raspas!
