Going Downhill

November 5, 2009

Mountain Boy Sledworks has been making handcrafted sleds in Silverton, Colorado, for seven years. But a zoning dispute has led the city to order the company to stop production. The building inspector insists the sleds are a manufactured product, so their construction is a violation of local zoning. Mountain Boy owner Brice Hoskin says they are a craft product, which is permitted by the zoning.

Comments

|11.5.09 @ 4:19PM|#

Has anybody complained? Other than the nit-picky bureaucrat, I mean.

|11.5.09 @ 4:47PM|#

Of course! Another instance of government intervention stifling small business entrepeneurship to the benefit of subsidized big businesses. Get these busybodies out of the way and let men work for themselves.

the friendly grizzly|11.8.09 @ 10:01PM|#

Ahh yesssss! A nefarious plot brought on by the evil capitalistic ne'er-do-wells at Big Sled!

|11.5.09 @ 10:21PM|#

Now that's a slippery slope.

witch|11.5.09 @ 10:51PM|#

Mountain Boy owner Brice Hoskin says they are a craft product, which is permitted by the zoning.

Freedom of religon, Fellas.

|11.6.09 @ 6:45AM|#

"Obama wants" sleds.

CB

peacewish|11.8.09 @ 9:17AM|#

...rosebud....

Barry O|11.9.09 @ 11:08AM|#

Closing down this shop has saved or created 15,287 jobs for other sled manufacturers, so you should all be grateful.

|11.9.09 @ 5:12PM|#

I say we bailout all sled manufacturers with the billions we earn on our Chrysler investment.

|11.10.09 @ 8:15PM|#

The Kalifornication of the new Peoples Republic of Kolorado.

CS%|11.11.09 @ 11:18AM|#

"It's not like we're Denver"