Royal Oak doesn't want security gates on retail.

[Zacha341]

Yes, insurance factors do come into play often. There was a pharmacy built from the ground on Woodward and Clairmont about give years ago without the shutters. The windows were broken out before it ever opened and it has never opened! Someone missed the memo on that one....

While we're regulating liberty, worth noting that insurance rules sometimes require them as a condition of continued coverage for certain businesses. Pharmacies for example.

[Danny]

The Royal Oak City Council doesn't its city to look like a Detroit ghetto. I'm feel sorry forthe owner of the wine store to give up his protection. Now He has to pay topdollar for ADT security instead.

Royal Oakers!

Don't be afraid of Kristallnaght. It's going to happen. Steel security doorprotects homes and businesses from theft.

[cramerro]

While the gent in the article unnecessarily invoked the "Detroit" clause with his reference to Michigan Avenue, the regulation of these security measures is common to most communities... I'm surprised RO doesn't have something in place already. It is very true that there are all sorts of contraptions... screens, shutters, gates, doors, etc. There has been a case going in Redford [[Township) where an owner of a new roll-your-own cigarettes put up one of the roll-downs on the outside of his business, in violation of the ordinance. In his case, [[allegedly) he had been broken in to a number of times, had to re-up for insurance that was three times as costly, and the last time literally was priced out of any insurance against break-ins. So, he put up the roll-down. His isn't hidden by any awnings or anything, and looks pretty hideous. The Township revised their ordinance to allow other treatments but in the end still said that the exterior roll-down would not be allowed.

There are a lot of other ways to protect your business that don't make you look like a DTE substation or inner city liqour palace. Especially when you're not worried about vandalism to the windows, there is no reason not to have the security measure installed inside the building.