Beleaguered merchants at Underground Station await the Board of Works' next crushing street closure bombardment.

How much more construction closures and special events disruptions can these merchants take and still survive?

Added together, the last-minute Bank and Main signal project (wouldn't a 4-way stop have sufficed as opposed to yet another signature half-million-dollar Gahan campaign finance monetization boondoggle?) and the rear parking lot closure for Harvest Homecoming will total a full month of business pattern interruption, with precious little advance information provided to people who've invested in bricks and mortar and learned the hard way that the utterly non-transparent Team Gahan doesn't understand anything about what it means to be in business, unless "being in business" means grandstanding at ribbon-cuttings.

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Main and Bank work to begin on Monday the 13th -- or was that Friday the 16th?

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: The shenanigans and ass-hattery of Deaf Gahan's last-minute Main and Bank stop light project have commenced.

"Aladdin's and all the merchants at the Underground Station will be open regular business hours during the complete reconstruction of Bank St. in front of the Underground Station."

Slick Jeffie's $500,000 stop light project at the intersection of Main and Bank, the urgent need for which has been apparent for at least six years, was stupidly delayed until the middle of September because of the mayor's self-glorification imperatives elsewhere. It then was decreed that a two- to three-month project would be completed in 27 days -- because of election year politics.

But everyone forgot about the OTHER 800-lb gorilla: Harvest Homecoming's carnival rides, hence this morning's abrupt notification that much of the parking on the south side of the Underground Station block will be closed until October 17.

Open, but ...

The Reisz Mahal is the only thing moving here.

A business owner sent this update:

"Thank you. A number of businesses here have clients and patients with mobility issues who require ADA compliant accessibility, which was torn up and made completely unusable with no notice to us or our clients."

I can hear the whining of Gahan's minions: Can't people just walk? As if a single one of the privileged time-servers grasped what walkability really means amidst their incessant car-centric "improvements."

Or, walk -- like all those people did, past an entire blocked block of Market last weekend, to behold barbecue they couldn't purchase, from a landscape that resembled a KOA campground.

Shouldn't the Board of Works be helping small businesses to remain in business?

Or do we take Gahanism to its logical conclusion and begin tithing donations to Gahan to protect us from Gahan?

I'll be updating this story as merited.

"Aladdin's and all the merchants at the Underground Station will be open regular business hours during the complete reconstruction of Bank St. in front of the Underground Station."

Previously we examined another in a series of oblivious Gahan street grid errors.

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Main and Bank work to begin on Monday the 13th -- or was that Friday the 16th?

As usual, indie businesses bear the brunt as the Democratic Party's patronage imperatives enrich campaign donors.

Dear friends.

Aladdin's and all the merchants at the Underground Station will be open regular business hours during the complete reconstruction of Bank St. in front of the Underground Station. We appreciate everyone's patronage and understanding while this project is underway. And please keep in mind that all parking behind the Underground Station is open and all sidewalks are accessible as well.

"Top Shelf Tactical, LLC is currently closed due to unstable building conditions from construction on the new city hall."

It's a tough break for any locally-owned independent business.

Top Shelf Tactical, LLC is currently closed due to unstable building conditions from construction on the new city hall. Let’s hope construction is speedy and this family owned shop is able to open soon.

Funny, but I remember ...

But didn't taxpayers already forward $750,000 to Denton Floyd to "stabilize" the Reisz Luxury City Hall?

Maybe it was just the front side. But ...

Unless the Redevelopment Commission or City Hall granted permission, Dan Coffey illegally parked cars on city property during Harvest Homecoming. Period. Censure, anyone?

Previously:

ASK THE BORED: Maserati, Mussolini, Missoula -- whatever, so the Green Mouse is off to learn more about Dan Coffey's HH parking profits at the infamous grassy knoll.

In his coverage of this morning's Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, the News and Tribune's Chris Morris provides a recap and confirms what Matt Chalfant told me this afternoon.

• Roger Baylor asked the board if it had given permission to the Knights of Columbus to sell parking spaces during Harvest Homecoming this year at the grassy lot near Underground Station on Bank Street. Board of Works President Warren Nash said the board did not give permission.

Dan Coffey, with the K of C and a city councilman, said the city’s permission was not needed since the lot was owned by local developer Matt Chalfant. But Chalfant said late Tuesday he did not take ownership of the lot until after the festival.

Coffey said the money raised purchased 55 Thanksgiving baskets this year for those in need.

So, neither BOW nor Chalfant gave the okay.

It's possible the Redevelopment Commission authorized it, or even the mayor himself, though it's unlikely.

Coffey's wasting no time; he's already skipped ahead to the inevitable excuse: charging drivers to park their cars on city-owned property without permission may have been illegal and all, but it was for a good cause.

Of course, there are numerous good causes around town, probably none of which realized they might be able to raise money of their own by squatting on public property for the purpose of transacting business, when the parking spaces in question might have been deployed to alleviate the concerns of downtown business owners.

We await confirmation from Redevelopment, yea or nay. Even if permission wasn't given, someone might yet cover for Coffey if the councilman's political value to the regime is deemed sufficiently important to conjure a few little white lies.

But make no mistake: 100% charitable donations or not, if Coffey acted to circumvent channels and used city property to generate cash, censure by the city council is the very least we should expect from our presumed pillars.

In this eventuality, Coffey really should be prosecuted -- don't you think?

ASK THE BORED: Maserati, Mussolini, Missoula -- whatever, so the Green Mouse is off to learn more about Dan Coffey's HH parking profits at the infamous grassy knoll.

With any luck at all, we'll learn more this morning -- but tongues are wagging about a certain woman and her Maserati.

UPDATE: BOW suggests it wasn't informed about councilman Dan Coffey's Harvest Homecoming parking profits at 32 Bank Street.

Faced with an abominable two-week parking blackout owing to the presence of Fiesta Rides, many of the businesses asked both the city and Harvest Homecoming if there was additional parking elsewhere.

They were all told no, and yet right there in spitting distance was Coffey's personal Harvest Homecoming pocket-stuffing, electricity-bill-paying mechanism.

All along, the Green Mouse's informants have insisted that while Coffey never had permission from anyone to run a for-pay parking lot on city property during Harvest Homecoming, at least he donated most and maybe even all of the proceeds to the Knights of Columbus.

(The Green Mouse also was told not everyone at the K of C appreciates Coffey's recent annexation and personal branding of the organization, but that's their problem, isn't it?)

However, according to the latest series of juicy rumors, the K of C's profits were lessened considerably after an altercation during HH inside Coffey's grassy knoll parking lot between a woman's Maserati and a trash barrel. As this story goes, in the absence of permission or insurance, a settlement for the damage to the tune of a couple grand was reached -- with the money coming out of the K of C's cut.

Seeing as those types of "them people" in Italian luxury sports cars generally are the bane of Coffey's ward-heeling existence, it must have been a hilarious negotiation.

UPDATE: BOW suggests it wasn't informed about councilman Dan Coffey's Harvest Homecoming parking profits at 32 Bank Street.

On October 20, in the aftermath of the #Orange Occupation, the Green Mouse was curious.

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Did BOW give Dan Coffey permission to leverage city-owned ground during the Orange Occupation?

The Green Mouse was having a conversation with a downtown business owner, who asked a simple question.

Who owns the grassy lot at the foot of Bank Street, by the flood wall and to the east of Underground Station?

That'd be the City of New Albany. The business owner rolled his eyes.

Did the Green Mouse realize that during all four booth days of Harvest Homecoming, councilman Dan "Wizard of Westside" Coffey manned this city-owned grassy patch, charging drivers to park their cars on this lot?

"No," said the Green Mouse, grasping for his flask.

Did the money actually go to the city, or did it go into Dan Coffey's pockets?

Did the Board of Works grant permission for city-owned property to be used in this way?

We routed the latter question to the Board of Public Works and Safety via Vicki Glotzbach, our ever-helpful city clerk, and promptly received this answer:

"I asked Mr. (Warren) Nash yesterday about your concern and he said he is not sure that the board of works knew about that situation."

Consequently, I asked for this issue to be placed on the agenda of next Tuesday's BOW meeting, if for no other reason than ensuring it becomes part of the permanent public record by making the board aware of it.

As noted recently, it appears that developer Matt Chalfant is negotiating with the Redevelopment Commission to build at 32 Bank Street (the grassy patch in question). According to customary working procedure, BOW should have known about Coffey's temporary parking gig.

If not, then the odds favor "permission to profiteer" having been granted Coffey by Redevelopment (or the inner circle at City Hall).

Conversely, the Wizard might have assumed that with Jeff Gahan as his perennial protector, no one would think to question his actions.

By the way, is Dan Johnson still hanging on in Louisville?

GREEN MOUSE SAYS: Did BOW give Dan Coffey permission to leverage city-owned ground during the Orange Occupation?

The Green Mouse was having a conversation with a downtown business owner, who asked a simple question.

Who owns the grassy lot at the foot of Bank Street, by the flood wall and to the east of Underground Station?

That'd be the City of New Albany. The business owner rolled his eyes.

Did the Green Mouse realize that during all four booth days of Harvest Homecoming, councilman Dan "Wizard of Westside" Coffey manned this city-owned grassy patch, charging drivers to park their cars on this lot?

"No," said the Green Mouse, grasping for his flask.

Did the money actually go to the city, or did it go into Dan Coffey's pockets? 

Did the Board of Works grant permission for city-owned property to be used in this way?

(Later, the Green Mouse glanced back at BOW's recent minutes, and could find no reference to Coffey, parking, the grassy non-knoll, or permission to conduct business there.)

The business owner had a final thought.

Faced with an abominable two-week parking blackout owing to the presence of Fiesta Rides, many of the businesses asked both the city and Harvest Homecoming if there was additional parking elsewhere.

They were all told no, and yet right there in spitting distance was Coffey's personal Harvest Homecoming pocket-stuffing, electricity-bill-paying mechanism.

If any city officials are reading, might we gently ask for an explanation? Perhaps no graft favor is too small in return for Coffey's support of the mayor's hostile takeover of public housing, even if Cappuccino no longer is a Democrat.

#OrangeOccupation

"They just killed my business" ... and other incredible tales as "Harvest Homecoming creates parking dilemma at Underground Station."

NAC broke this story last Wednesday, and it was the most-viewed post of September.

Trumple-down carny economics: The needs of Fiesta Rides outweighs the needs of bricks and mortar indie businesses at Underground Station.

Meanwhile, Underground Station's Ron Carter is right.

Art Niemeier and a handful of other "reformers" within Harvest Homecoming have been exemplary in their efforts to deal with the fundamental and increasingly intractable problem: The festival's 50-year-old business model is largely incompatible with downtown's revitalization.

"Carter is confident that a solution is possible — especially if it involves the city."

A solution cannot be reached without recognition of another fundamental reality: Harvest Homecoming cannot continue in its current configuration without the city's permission. The festival exists because it is given a free ride on public right-of-way. It's a simple as that.

And: The city can no longer base its yearly acquiescence on tradition alone in a time when the stakes continue to be raised. Harvest Homecoming needs to adapt, but it cannot (will not?) do so if it continues to take advantage of its status as Third Rail -- untouchable and sacrosanct.

A half-century is a very long time, but it isn't the 11th Commandment. City Hall says it's on the job, but as usual, whatever Jeff Gahan is doing to shape an outcome is taking place behind closed doors, without the participation of key downtown stakeholders.

Until everyone is invited to the table, this won't get any better. It's isn't personal. It's just business -- lots of businesses, and not just a few.

Harvest Homecoming creates parking dilemma at Underground Station, by Danielle Grady (News and Tribune)

Underground Station owners say festival blocks access

NEW ALBANY — With new downtown New Albany developments come new problems for the Harvest Homecoming Festival. This year’s dilemma: Business owners at the newly full Underground Station have had their main source of parking blocked for over a week due to ride set-up, with almost one more week of lost business to go.

Trumple-down carny economics: The needs of Fiesta Rides outweighs the needs of bricks and mortar indie businesses at Underground Station.

When all is said and done, locally owned businesses at Underground Station will be inconvenienced for almost two weeks by the closures required to stage Harvest Homecoming's carpetbagging carny rides.

During the past couple of years, Harvest Homecoming has started listening, and it should be credited whenever it "gets" the needs of year-round businesses downtown. When it doesn't ... well, who else is in a position to defend the interests of the indie business community if not city government itself?

It must not be forgotten that Harvest Homecoming cannot operate on city-owned ground without the city's permission. No one is asking for Harvest Homecoming to go away, only to adapt. Only City Hall truly is in a position to facilitate this adaptation. It claims to be doing so, and this may be true, but a nagging question remains: Why isn't the process of engagement more transparent?

Following is a sampling of opinion from merchants and customers at Underground Station.

They are set in their ways, and as long as no one challenges them, they will continue to decide things unilaterally. As I was discussing the parking situation with the lady in charge, she said this is how it's been for the past 44 years, since Harvest started, and it will continue that way. So, in her logic, what worked and was ok in the early 70s, should be ok now in 2016. As if time has stood still, and no growth, developments, or population increases have have occurred throughout the years. This is the logic we are dealing with.

Businesses should be the priority. Harvest Homecoming in part should be to introduce visitors to the local businesses.

It's very frustrating that the small local businesses are over looked for the sake of money for the city and harvest homecoming. Having a new business in the area, it's scary to have to practically shut down for a close to a week- due to lack of parking and access for our clients. It's even more frustrating the lack of care presented by the city to us when we voiced our concerns.

No one is saying that Harvest is NOT a wonderful benefit to New Albany. All we are asking is that we as small business owners are considered when they plan it. All of the above comments are coming from owners of local businesses in the Underground Station! We also are apart of new development of NA. Losing commission for a week as an employee vs business owners losing a lot of revenue. Sorry you disagree. We as well do not want to see change in NA besides working with us or at least hearing us out. They will not even give us a sit down meeting. We are not asking for a lot. Only access to a parking area for our customers. Harvest comes around once a year. We are here all year long.

Eat, drink and repeat: Six updates about downtown New Albany food and dining.

When there is time, it's always good to gather various news items and social media postings into one place -- and today there is time. You may have seen them already, but if not, let's begin with Aladdin's Cafe, now rocking its new location at Underground Station.

GOING UNDERGROUND: New Albany's Underground Station fills its last storefront; Station contains 11 businesses and three apartments, by Danielle Grady (News and Tribune)

On Aug. 23, Aladdin’s Cafe closed the doors on its West Market Street location of three years.

There weren’t any public displays of grief for New Albany’s long time-Middle Eastern favorite. That’s because the restaurant would reopen one day later — just at a new location. A shiny, new place at 37 Bank St., with 10 other New Albany businesses and a peaceful, well-paved courtyard.

The mandated monthly local Alcohol & Tobacco Commission hearing took place on September 6, and Aladdin's Cafe passed with flying colors. Final regulatory approval should come in about two weeks,and then adult libations will return to Aladdin's accompany the area's finest Baba Ganoush (among other delicacies).

Taco Steve appeared at the very same hearing on the 6th, garnering approval to serve beer, and subject to the same two-week wait. In the meantime, an Internet list has touted ten places to get tacos in Indiana, and Taco Steve is one of them. As the young folks say, "Woot."

Lunch is now being served at Brooklyn and The Butcher, which also scored an excellent review by Robin Garr in LEO Weekly.

The other night, as we rolled across the Sherman Minton Bridge to New Albany for an evening at Brooklyn and the Butcher, it crossed my mind that New Albany is actually a little bit like Brooklyn.

New Albany, like Brooklyn, is a city across a river from a larger city, long ignored by its neighbors, but suddenly awash with excellent new places to dine, drink and have a good time. And as with Brooklyn, crowds are starting to make their way over to check it out.

River City Winery has long-awaited expansion news.

River City Winery is growing ... next week RCW will begin a long awaited expansion in the old Preston Art Center.

The beginning remodel phase will start with our kitchen expansion. We are excited about this opportunity for growth, but, in the process we do have to make some TEMPORARY changes.

Beginning Tuesday 9.13.16 we will have a new Fall / Winter menu. A few of our well known favorites will not be available during the kitchen remodel ... STARTING MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12 WE WILL BE OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK.

Breweries aren't built in a day. During our New England trip, we visited four breweries that are at least two decades old. These traditions begin, are nurtured and then grow. The investments are made not by political parties and chambers of commerce, but by real people leveraging their own finite resources. As such, congratulations to Floyd County Brewing Company on its first anniversary, and making it past the first "one year" hurdle.

That's six, including Underground Station. I'm intent on making these updates a recurring feature at NAC, so let me know what's up and what I may have missed.

Aladdin's Cafe is up and running at its new Underground Station location.

Aladdin's Cafe's page at Facebook has the story.

Good News Aladdin's friends and fans. The move is complete, and we will be open Wed. at 12:00 in the Underground Station. Come enjoy our brand new location and beautiful courtyard seating. In the following few days, we will also be introducing delicious additions to our menu.

Aladdin's Cafe, 37 Bank St. Suite #2, New Albany, Indiana ... (502) 489-7969

DNA Mixer at the Underground Station on Tuesday, August 2.

Visit these locally owned businesses in the 

Underground Station

Green Earth Outdoors
812-510-GEAR (4327)
GreenEarthOutdoors.com

Dolce Vita Boutique
812-725-0760
Dolce Vita on Facebook

New Albany Massage Therapeutics
270-903-7664
Newalbanymassage.com

Body and Brow Boutique
812-225-9191 
Bodyandbrow.com

Aladdin's Cafe
502-489-7969
www.thealaddinscafe.com

Dream Boutique
812-987-8019
Dream Boutique Website

Christine Cherry Photography
812-987-2437
Christine Cherry Photography on Facebook

Underground Classic Cuts
812-725-9273
Underground Classic Cuts on Facebook

The Olivet
812-913-4430
Theolivet.com

Sew Fitting
502-548-8733
Sewfitting.com

EXP Realty
812-734-6048
Exprealty.com

Now it's official: Aladdin's Cafe is moving to Underground Station in July.

You already know that Aladdin's Cafe offers the finest Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine in town, and now the other secret's out.

Great news, Aladdin's friends, fans, and customers. Aladdin's will be moving to a brand new location in July. The beautiful Underground Station will be our new home.

An expanded menu, more choices, the best food around, and a beautiful atmosphere will be in store for you at our new home.

We greatly appreciate everyone's support and encouragements for the past 3 years, and it will only get better at the Underground Station.

The build-out continues, leaving us six weeks to ponder exactly what sort of "expanded menu" choices Mike and crew are contemplating.

On a related note, daddy simply adores chicken sumac ...

On the advent of Underground Station, rank political poseurs and a dangerous street without crosswalks or stop signs.

Hmm ... it's the weird institution of the ribbon cutting, when grasping local politicians and corporate welfare dispensation chambers you haven't ever seen before somehow arrive nonetheless, breathlessly accepting credit for things they didn't do.

Then they disappear again. At least there's that.

I'm delighted for the developers, tenants and residents at Underground Station. You're doing it every day, not every now and then. Unfortunately, there's something you all need to bear in mind: Jeff Gahan does not understand what you're about, and he has no intention of lending a hand apart from the Friday photo op, which now will be used to illustrate his tender concern for local businesses.

As my Italian friend pointed out, "Camorra" is a more accurate term than Mafioso. Notice the city's new marketing symbol, with Team Gahan's branded slogan to follow: "We're Anchored Firmly Into Place. Come Stay Put with Us."

Why is the mayor carrying a paving stone?

When I left the ceremony yesterday, I walked from the entrance on Bank Street to the intersection of Bank and Main. Only recently, New Albany's hand-picked Bored of Works paused briefly from stifling the street piano to reject the idea of a four-way stop at this intersection. Notice the driver below, who cannot see and is easing out into a gray area, where often traffic moves quite fast.

How fast?

I'm so glad you asked. Twice this week, Mayor Gahan told audiences that something special just had to be done for Main Street owing to traffic moving 60 miles per hour. He also accused me of being frustrated because I live on Spring Street -- where more traffic than ever before travels 60 mph since Main Street was made "special", which means that in essence, Gahan has made the overall speeding problem worse. He seems very proud of that.

Here, you see a section of Main Street, where I've seen traffic moving quite fast, and yet nothing special is being done to help cars navigate a crossing when more of them will be doing so than ever before because Underground Station now is open.

Look at these wide expanses of asphalt, and now imagine people walking back and forth from other downtown businesses and events. Notice the complete absence of crosswalks or any other effort to ease their passage.

Ironically (pathetically), at Thursday's LWV debate, Gahan claimed credit for being the two-way streets mayor by virtue of paying the nation's foremost expert in design-driven walkability to conduct a study. Noting the obvious fact that nothing whatever has been done to date, and with no public plans to act as the "ripple effect" of bridge tolls draws ever closer, Gahan answers that his crack team of non-national experts are carefully mulling the options of what was written as a shovel-ready plan -- and the random darts are being tossed into voodoo dolls over Bud Lights at the Roadhouse as we speak.

Jeff Speck is blunt.

Crosswalks may not be rocket science, but this is New Albany, and our mayor is Jeff Gahan. If Gahan insists on making the point that something must be done to alleviate high traffic speeds, conducts a study, piddles for six months, then decides to wait another 18 months before contemplating a starting date, isn't he acknowledging the existence of an unsafe situation he's doing nothing to address?

There's nothing "fundamentally better" about any of this -- except for the unsubsidzed, non-incentivized and largely ignored efforts of independent local businesses, entrepreneurs, contractors and developers. They're doing it every day, not just every now and then.

Just remember that the one solid, fundamental action the city could take to help Underground Station prosper in the absence of assistance in any other conceivable form would be to GET THE STREET INFRASTRUCTURE RIGHT without dithering and obfuscating,

Even this simple truth eludes Jeff Gahan.

Ready for a change yet?

TOMORROW: Indie Fest at Underground Station, kicking off at 12 noon.

Indie Fest 2015 is tomorrow (Sunday, September 27) at Underground Station. It's located on the 100 block of Bank Street between Main and the levee. There'll be music, art, beer, food and me campaigning from my camp chair.

The future of economic development in New Albany is the local economy. That's what Indie Fest annually celebrates. Thanks again to Kevin Zurschmiede for matching my $500 contribution to staging this festival, and although Jeff Gahan still has yet to follow suit, I'm confident he'll bring his check book to the event.

Indie Fest at Facebook

The musical roster is as follows.

Courtyard Performance Area
Set Times / Band Name
12:30 PM - Drew Alexander
2:15 PM - Salsa Dancing
3:00 PM - Indiana Joe & Arrow
4:15 PM - St. Aubin
6:30 PM - IN Lightening
7:45 PM - Fauna

North Stage Performance Area
Set Times / Band Name
1:00 PM - Ghostholler
1:45 PM - EMDW
3:30 PM - Kendra Renee Villiger
5:45 PM - Mercy Academy
7:00 PM - Catch Kennedy
8:15 PM - Tall Squares
9:00 PM - Bad Times Band

Indiefest back for fourth edition in New Albany, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — Year four of New Albany Indiefest will feature rock and roll, local arts and crafts, and a new location.

The festival will be held from noon to 11 p.m. Sunday in the courtyard area of Underground Station, which is located at the intersection of Bank and Main streets. The festival will also occupy the 100 block of Bank Street.

In past years, Bank Street was blocked off between Spring and Market streets for the events. Marcey Wisman-Bennett, who is the lead organizer of Indiefest, said the Underground Station provides more space, and will be more conducive to the format of the hyperlocal festival.

Board of Works can't see the handicapped parking spaces for the Re-Elect Gahan yard signs.

A few weeks back, Marcey Wisman-Bennett went to the Board of Public Works and Safety to request a handicapped parking space at 156 E. Main, in front of Sew Fitting, which she manages.

Sew Fitting is part of the emerging, vibrant Underground Station complex of renovated retail and residential spaces, occupying formerly decrepit buildings on a generally neglected block adjacent to the perennially moribund Reisz Furniture Building.

(Full disclosure: Marcey is a friend and is helping me with my campaign for mayor)

Yesterday, Marcey posted comments and photos on Facebook.

"The Board of Works president and the Street Commissioner claimed this morning that the city does not provide handicapped parking in the downtown business district, and yet on my walk back to the shop I saw 3 in a 3 block vicinity. Do they really know that little about the community they serve, or was it the best lie they could come up with on the spot?"

If ever a hearty LOL were appropriate, it is now.

After all, who are you going to believe, Warren Nash and Mickey Thompson, or your own two eyes?

Yes, there are handicapped parking places delineated throughout downtown New Albany. There also are numerous parking regulations on the city's books, almost none of which are enforced, this being the continuation under Jeff Gahan of a puzzling non-enforcement regimen decreed by former mayor Doug England.

As such: Are the handicapped spaces pictured here -- the ones Nash and Thompson deny exist -- among the parking ordinances we do not enforce?

There's this thing called the ADA ...

Or, do we enforce them, but not other ordinances? As such, how and when can we know which real and imagined ordinances are enforced, or not?

Is it a coin flip?

Given the proclivities of City Hall, can we even begin to know what is enforced, and what is not, without knowing the political party affiliation of the transgressor/hero, and their history of campaign contributions?

To have these and other questions ignored by the ruling cabal, I have a common sense suggestion for Marcey.

Can't you just go straight to the top and ask the guy in charge? I'm sure Adam Dickey can explain everything.