The problem with many of the ideas, if you will, is the agreement that the EDTCA has with the state taxman. This limits the public access to the show. If you want the public everywhere that goes away and so does the majority of the folks selling at the member level. Believe or not without them, York would go away faster than now. The vendors could do better at a location that wasn't originally intended to be for a member only, local show. Any solution has to keep this deal in place.
The EDTCA has done a good job at pushing this as far as they can go. The member halls cannot be open to the public. I also suspect the public have very little interest in what's in those halls as they are geared more towards the collector anyways. It's always so easy looking from the outside in to come up with ideas but without knowing all the inner workings something that seems so obvious and a good idea is often not.
