Originally Posted by
AlmostTrick
What blows is the fact that any one complaint from anyone (even the driver who killed the person or persons, or a non resident!) can have any specific memorial removed after any amount of time... even when the majority of the community may endorse having it up, or not care either way.
The policy, what ever it is, should never allow a single person to make the call.
The policy was put in place to create a mechanism for removing these. I agree that it is poorly designed, but the shortest interval would be 45 days, which doesn't turn out to be the case here. I suspect that the city was trying to place itself outside of being the bad guys by saying it wasn't their decision.
If you read my earlier posts you'll see that I suggested the policy be replaced with a fixed maximum time limit, with shorter limits possible based on nuisance value (to be determined by other means than a single complaint). But that's moot in this case. The memorial was up for two years, which is more than a reasonable time regardless of why it's being removed now. I'd be more sympathetic if we were talking about removing a memorial (any) within 90 days of the death, or even longer, but not two years which is the real point here.
I suspect that the city was tryng