re: #78 calochortus

I don’t recall the specifics of the zoning issues, but if they weren’t letting other fast food restaurants locate there, that’s fine. When the politicians got involved, it was definitely more of a “we don’t want their kind here” and that really isn’t OK.

The exact zoning dispute was that Chik-Fil-A wanted to build a large parking lot for customers; the town would not allow a variance for that, to preserve a pedestrian oriented traffic pattern. The store itself was fine; the parking lot was not.

Oh, and the refusal to sign an anti-discrimination pledge was also part of this.