The Plaza vs. City Hall

My son is a punk. I know he doesn’t mind me calling him a punk, but I hope he doesn’t mind me calling him son. Technically, Christian is my stepson. Anyhow, I’m proud of him. He runs with the non-conformist crowd (I tried to explain to him how oxymoronic that is, but he doesn’t care), just like I did when I was a young man.

A few weeks ago, a new all-ages music venue opened up in town about 200 yards from our apartment. He loved it because all the local hardcore bands finally had a place to play and he could walk there in about a minute. His mom Karri and I loved it because if anything went wrong he could get home, or we could get there, real quick.

The Plaza was open for a couple, three weeks, I don’t know, and then the “authorities”, the “powers that be”, pulled the plug. The city’s position was that they had first approved the business license and zoning approval and all that, but then, well, mistakes were made. You see, there were other citizens who weren’t happy with the situation. There was a lot of back and forth about why, and who was at fault. Christian was one of the punks who emailed the city in protest. And the city responded. Well, just watch the video…

This is part one of five parts. We posted the entire meeting on YouTube. If you want to see the rest of the meeting, just go to youtube.com and search on “scottkarri”. I’ll update this post as the story develops.