Imagine paying top dollar for a family home or commercial space to run a family business, in what you believe to be a prime neighborhood.
Then the City Council grants a permit to shut down the streets around your building in order to hold an event of this type for a week each year.
I lived in San Ramon where we had the Wind Festival each year, with kite flying, bbq, and arts and crafts.
Danville had several arts and crafts street fairs throughout the year, too. Even Pleasanton and Livermore got into it for awhile.
And the cream of the crop was the Alameda County Fair each summer in Pleasanton, with pie and preserve contests, sowing and knitting contests, livestock contests, and paramutual betting at the horse race track.
-PJ