Local business owner Ken Sarachan is at a loss as to how to comply with Berkeley’s Code Enforcement office demands and avoid fines for unsanctioned tables on his property and the surrounding sidewalk. His bill now totals over $148,000.
Sarachan says that the code enforcement office presented him and the property’s co-owner, Laurie Brown, with two options for their 2454 Telegraph Ave. property: pay a $9,000 application fee to have his property’s use permit changed to allow a chess club he has no association with — with unlikely approval — or file a “No Trespassing” letter, post “No Trespassing”‘ signs and call the Berkeley Police Department to cite and arrest the chess players as they would in any trespassing case.
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Berkeley council seeks solution for displaced chess club while property owner faces fines
Local business owner Ken Sarachan is at a loss as to how to comply with Berkeley’s Code Enforcement office demands and avoid fines for unsanctioned tables on his property and the surrounding sidewalk. His bill now totals over $148,000.
Sarachan says that the code enforcement office presented him and the property’s co-owner, Laurie Brown, with two options for their 2454 Telegraph Ave. property: pay a $9,000 application fee to have his property’s use permit changed to allow a chess club he has no association with — with unlikely approval — or file a “No Trespassing” letter, post “No Trespassing”‘ signs and call the Berkeley Police Department to cite and arrest the chess players as they would in any trespassing case.