My town’s city council is only serving the interests of older generations and elderly folk.
The noise ordinances make it impossible for any musicians to perform live music in this area, which was a huge disappointment for me as soon as I arrived with my wife when we moved in from out of state.
On top of that, all of the fast food restaurants are located next to the interstate exit away from the residential neighborhoods. If you want to get a tasty bag of Wendy’s or McDonalds, you’ll have to take a 10 minute drive in each direction on the way. But this isn’t even the worst part about living in this town. It’s even worse knowing that we nearly didn’t have cannabis dispensaries in the first place because the city council tried to prevent them all from entering. When that measure failed, they imposed ridiculous rules on the three dispensaries that operate within the city limits. Two of those rules involve when the dispensaries are allowed to be open. They’re all barred from doing sales on Sundays, and all cannabis dispensaries must close by 7pm regardless of which night of the week it is. In the rest of the state, some cannabis stores are open as late as 9pm or 10pm if you live in a dense metropolitan city. I don’t get it; if I drive 10 minutes into a neighboring town I can shop at a cannabis store well into the evening hours, but I can’t shop this late at the one down the road from my house? If this was a dry city as far as alcohol is concerned I would understand these rules, but they’re being inconsistent.