“The person at the planning dept said they’d never had anyone ask about this before....Know why....????? Everyone else is doing it under the radar.”
I am sorry you are being burdened for opening a simple “lemonade stand”. I wonder if God sometimes expects us to stop playing the fool before an ever-encroaching system and just act freely? Does a simple car washing gig qualify for governmental approval and oversight? Maybe under the radar in small things is the obvious thing to do before God, rather than being IN the radar of a government that’s ungodly and greedy and will turn to YOU (the honest citizen, because you’re on their books!) to rectify their financial malfeasance?
Being a by-the-book’er myself it’s hard to know the answer.
That’s the kicker isn’t it? Trying to do the right thing in the face of a bunch of bureaucrats who are technically working for We the People!