Our local City Council has pulled some bonehead moves, and our local group and Blog has actually won a couple of small skirmishes with them. Give me a Council as double stomped stupid as the Snyders, I'd OWN city gov't in two years' time.
Incredibly bad move. If some ordinance is in place, David should have smiled and issued the permit. If the folks never applied, instead of tickets, they should have had David's smiling face at their doorstep, permit in hand, to personally explain the applicable sign ordinance, adding that council was going to see about changing that restriction. There were so many ways available to defuse this nonsense, even possibly turn it into a political positive, the fact that the Snyders did not use them is evidence sufficient that they do need to be run out of gov't at any level.
i havent been able to confirm this or not but i heard that the snyders had a disabled war vet escorted out of the last counsil meeting by the police becasue they didnt like they way he was looking at them and they thought he MIGHT disrupt the meeting.