Catch22: Need vs Want

When it comes to right thing to do, the entrepreneurs will not think twice but make it happen even under any circumstances such as without legitimate backing. For example, start business first while waiting for license to be approved. This is understood as many can only start renovation and submit application for license after signing the tenancy agreement with landlord. Under normal circumstances, they are given one month rental free to renovate and make neccesary application for approval to operate. What happen if the grace period over and approval yet to obtain? Most businessmen will run their business without license and take full responsibility on any risk of getting fine or enforcement action from the authority. Under their stand point, it is nothing wrong if you need to pay few thousand dollars of rental with no income forthcoming. In the economy sense, it is illogical and waste of resources.

For the local authority envisions to practice good governance and embrace friendly stand towards environment and the stekholders but lack of any concrete legal backing, what is the option available? On one hand their action might be ultra virus and subjected to challenge by others, on the other hand it is something emerging or currently has been done elsewhere and morally need to be done. For example, knowing that due to heavy runoff because of increase in rain intensity, the local authority is making it mandatory for development projects to install the rain water harvesting system. The system is helping to store the rain water during heavy down pour so that the drain system and river will not be over flowing which is the major cause for flash flood. Everybody knows that this is the way forward and shall be done quicker the possible. However, the problem is getting the legislation and rules in place as support. Under such circumstance, are you waiting fo the rules to be passed first before implementation or implementing it regardless of the full legal backing? This is not an easy solution as tussle between interested parties over who's responsibility is the main subject for discussion. By instaling the system, the development project proponent has to folk out extra cost and hence affecting their bottom line. By not asking to do so, the authority might have to upgrade their drainage system by incorporating other measures such as retention pond which is costly. For individual owner, if nothing is to be done at the beginning of developmenet, I afraid many might not even what to do it. More demaging is more owners will cover their little green land in the frontage of their house compound for hard surface and parking purpose which will further reduce the land to absorb water runoff.

This comes back to the question of need and want. It is needed to have the system and logically the authority wants it. For requesting what you want, obviously the other side said you must have legitimate power to ask so. Legally it is a fair request, but morally I am not too sure... Having said so, not all wants shall be requested without any reasonable justification for the good of general public intereste or else it will become a society of "day light robbery".