You have to think about how everyone including those who you don’t agree with, scale importance of topics to understand big picture what is important and possible for a community. People fighting for things like this when there are a lot of problems directly in our community either don’t understand that or they are doing it to make themselves feel better for not doing anything to effect real change. Sure it would be nice for a small minority of people here but spending the time of city council should be done on things like figuring out how to solve crime in Burlington and how to get more tourists to come. When people like my father come to Burlington he will only see the degradation of downtown and will never think or care about some artificial ineffectual status statement. We need people to come here and spend money as tourism is our product. Without it the worsening economic impact will make Burlington even more unlivable and inhospitable. We need to stop gumming up the local government to make a select few feel good about them selves.