"How is this pro biz in a conservative town?"

Wonders Jay Lalonde. About? The fines preventing the Wests from putting planters at the rooftop of the Preservation Pub in Market Square. They had them there, and they were lovely, but the city sent them a notice to remove them or get fined $100 a day. This smacks of petty ridiculousness, and a commenter on Metropulse's story suggests someone is intent on harassing the Wests... Sad, really -- small town bullshit.

But that's not the point. The point is that there's apparently some idiotic ordinance against planters on the roof. It appears they aren't allowed to be seen from Market Square? I'm not sure what the point of this is, honestly. In NYC this past week I saw a promo poster for a design event and the artist had reversed the buildings and Central Park so that the city was mostly park, and all buildings. I also saw a giant tree on top of an apartment building. But no flowers on what, until then, had been unused space -- urban blight.

Anyway, I agree with Jay. If we're a "pro-business" and "anti-government interference" right wing area of the country, what's up with this crap? Or a local ordinance against food trucks? And so on.