Anchorage Taxi Cab drivers would benefit creates more competition and greater choice for the public

Limited open entry creates more competition and greater choice for the Anchorage Public.  Highly regulated and limiting permits like Anchorage just limits peoples ability to choose.  Spokane city has the same population as Anchorage not including the occupied areas of Eagle River, Chugiak, Spenard and Girdwood.  Their permits are business licenses costing only $1345 a piece.  Have the assembly  repeal 11.20.030 section D requiring public auction.  More permits more competition.    Limited competition please no one except the elite owner morons which ATPOA represents.  In Anchorage you have 174 permits.  Even smaller cities like Homer, Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Barrow, Fairbanks, Kenai, Wasilla, Kodiak, Ketchikan and Juneau have greater choices than Anchorage.  Currently in the Anchorage Transportation Commission their is a debate on transferable and non transferable permits.  Here is what really needs to be done.  Let's reduce the value of these permits $0 they pay $1345 every 2 years since all permits belong to Municipality not the owner at will like the ATPOA would like to say.  The only time these permits should be transferred is through family if the owner is not to perform this permit.  Let's also make these permits a requirement you must live in the Municipality of Anchorage to get one and have three years of cab driver experience.  Should cab drivers like Lynette Moreno-Hinz be able to purchase a permit.  Anchorage needs to adopt the Spokane model have the permits be $1345 every 2 years to create competition and do what the founding father intended.  If you want competition of taxicabs in Anchorage contact Debbie Ossainder at (907) 343-4113.