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Warning: my question at a city council meeting got a very surprising answer
Last Tuesday at our local town hall, I asked why the new park benches were being placed so far from the walking path. The council member said they were following an old rule about 'green space buffers' from a 1990s planning guide. Has anyone else gotten a weirdly specific answer to a simple question in public?
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troythompson18h agoTop Commenter
Got a zoning rule explained to me once for a missing stop sign.
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henry60416h ago
Yeah, the "zoning rule for a missing stop sign" thing hits home. I read about a town where they couldn't just put up a new sign at a bad corner. Because it was in a historic district, any change like that needed a full review for "visual impact" first. So the process to make things safer got stuck arguing about streetlight styles and signpost materials for months. It's wild how rules meant to protect one thing can totally block a simple fix for something else.
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