“If your goal is to outlaw (scooters), you have succeeded,” he said. “I can’t imagine anyone being able to operate with this many restrictions.

Good for Clark. Anyone else remember when the GOP was mostly about cutting regulations, helping small businesses and in favor of personal liberty?

You know what you’re doing when you kick start an electric scooter. If you bust your butt, that’s on you. Not the city and not on the company that put them out. Hold harmless agreements should be standard.

The city is right to try and recoup the costs associated with administering the fleets and enforcing whatever ordinances they pass. But not to the point where fees and paying for permits makes it impossible to turn a profit.

Fifteen pages of rules will take some time to sort out and refine. It’d be nice if council could pass just this one sentence regulation: Don’t be stupid.

But it’d never work.

In a world where kids eat Tide pods and otherwise sane adults text while driving, it’s increasingly difficult to define stupid.

Maybe, though, city council could trim the rule book back some. We broke away from England with fewer words.