What's wrong with these pictures?

Two more photos to test your skill at catching the faults. What's wrong here in this sidewalk café:Yes, you got it! Another illegal situation as of today. Can't fool you, eh! From July 5 on, sidewalk café furniture cannot extend beyond that pale yellow-ish section of brick that runs right beside the building's front. So no more tables of three or four: only settings for two, rather thin people at most. But as you clearly seen, the Espresso Post's front is also a doorway - and you can't block that when it's open. Even if you could, there's room for at most a single, narrow table and two chairs flush against the building. So these pictures show a thriving business about to be killed by our new licensing bylaw. Another Collingwood-is-closed for business moment brought to you by The Five Councillors that the next council will have to rectify.

Jeffery, Foley, Labelle, McNabb, Sandberg.....beat you chests. You are the victors. LET THEM EAT CAKE!!! (but not on a patio)

Here's a photo of the victory parade, July 7:No tourists, no happy dinners, no shoppers, no crowds, and of course no patios. But there is a lot of accessible space for.... well, not for much. Not even for buskers since they're not allowed to perform outside their tightly-controlled, restricted spaces. And even if they did perform there - who would be in their audience? Not patio customers, for sure, since they are now relics of the past (and who would be too far away to enjoy the music, anyway, since buskers can't perform with amplification!).So what we have downtown is the Collingwood equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle - a beautiful, mysterious location where businesses vanish without a trace, along with their customers. A place where culture exists only in tenuous footholds on tiny islands of officially-sanctioned brickwork.You can see the parade of residents who supported this move in the photograph above. Why aren't the councillors who supported this change present? Maybe they don't want to show their faces downtown...

Jeffery, Labelle, Sandberg, Foley, and McNabb indeed won the day but I believe it was a Pyrrhic victory. All the people who spoke out against the new bylaw-- the restaurateurs, wait staff, Fire Chief, CAO, petitioners, bloggers, letter writers, Facebook commenters-- all lost their voice at the table. The Downtown lost the pizzazz and business that the patios brought to the street. But Jeffery and her followers also lost. They lost the trust and respect of the people they were elected to represent. I hope they lose the race in October. Collingwood citizens don't deserve temper tantrums, bad manners, closed minds, unanswered e-mail, truth bending, arrogance.

Ian, thanks for posting your pictures. I think with the right people at the table, patios will return. Whenever I crossed Hurontario at Second, I would think what a beautiful part of the downtown Cafe Chartreuse's patio was. It enhanced that corner. I'm sad it's gone.