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Originally posted by Yorick:
The magical 20% number would keep changing as new places opened up. What if they closed down? A smoking place suddnely lost it's right to be a smoking place because a couple of places closed down that month. It'd be chaos in an already chaotic city Timber.
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Separate issue. Assume that's not on the table.
Besides, you are wrong again. Once a place is permitted as S or N/S, its permit would remain unless it applied for a new one. If a place applied for an S permit and no slots were available, it would have to get a N/S permit or simply not open. Since the owner choses what permit to apply for, it's his/her business how to run his/her business. Sure, it may change a bit, but how many times has a shop you liked shut down, been bought out, changed its menu, or lost/gained a liquor license? To argue such "chaos" would be too chaotic for NYC is silly, don't you think?