If they don't demand that their audiences open their eyes and greet the new, demand funding, fight zoning laws, parking laws, tax schemes, real estate scams, your new ballet, concerto, play, sculpture may well find its audience in single digits in your friend's father's garage in Burlington.
As she continues to fight the zoning board ruling, fines stemming from the cease and desist order have been accumulating at the rate of $40 a day since July 1999, said her lawyer, William Palmieri of the New Haven firm of Williams & Pattis.
Developers on Long Island have fought zoning requirements that require new subdivisions to include some affordable housing.
Acknowledging the possibility of a stiff fight ahead for zoning approval, Felix T. Charney, the president of Summit Development, whose company is in partnership with Greenfield, said he had hired John S. Marwell, a partner in the Mount Kisco law firm that represented Mr. Berenson in the 1970s.
They think that the fight is about zoning laws or civil service rules or economic development, and they go on and on explaining why the mayor is wrong about those things.
Allen's proclamation celebrated the Civil War as "a four-year struggle for independence, sovereign rights and local government control," with such cheer that you would really think the fight was all about zoning.
When Wellington was incorporated as a municipality in 1996, sports concessionaire Jeremy Jacobs formed a task force that successfully fought for a tough zoning ordinance covering 7,350 acres, 30% of the land in Wellington.
Fights over zoning and building codes have long been proxy fights over the nature and vitality of local economies.
As the fight over the center escalated from a zoning dispute into a battle in the culture wars, it has splintered New Yorkers along political lines.
Several years ago, Mount Vernon successfully fought a lawsuit challenging its zoning restrictions.
Mr. Samajopoulos, like other critics, says he does not oppose the hotel, just a height that violates the zoning limits he "fought tooth and nail to get".
