Not invented here? Like Mike’s Bikes, Peet’s makes customers so happy it has spread its stores across the Bay and now into other states. Let’s not punish Peet’s because of its suceess and the company’s choice to serve us in a convenient, popular site – by the water. Certainly it serves as high a public use on the waterfront as
a private garage for exotic cars.
The old North Point Coffee site, across the parking lot from Paradise Bay, with its backyard-on-the-bay could return to being a local place to meet as many of Peets’ places have been since they
started in Berkeley (where I first tasted their brew) it has a deep history of supporting local non-profits. If this long vacant spot was not on the waterfront then it would not need city approval – as the chain Starbucks didn’t when it came to
Sausalito.
From “art” to T shirts, many of the stores on our main street, Bridgeway, are not locally-owned. Our zoning that prevents chains on the waterfront should take into consideration the kind of people-serving business, the need for it there, the reputation of the business and – most of all – Sausalitan’s opinion about it. (Others around the Bay have a mix of
strong views - on this topic and our town.)
When the city council
gets 92 letters on the topic and only one, from a friend of mine here in
Sausalito, voices concerns about letting Peet’s serve us here, that’s a rather strong mandate.
Who knows? They may turn some of us into
Peetniks too.
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