Rape of La Ropa

Rob, what is the best method to ask that OXXO La Ropa tone down their facade? After all, they are sure to receive good business whether they flash their signage or make it a bit more low key. I will stop in more often when it's not flashing so much...

The residents need to get together and have a serious discussion with Reglamentos. Talk with Oscar, Leti, Guillermo, Francisco and/or Paty. The Asociación de Colonos de La Ropa should've been all over this from the git go. OXXO will be open 24 hours a day selling booze, styrofoam and plastic-wrapped crap, much of which will end up in the huerta, the estero and the beach. It will be a magnet for criminals and ne'er-do-wells. There WILL be holdups and halcones. So the least they could do is like they were made to do in their store across from the zócalo and tone down their visual violation their surroundings, in this case of our poor abused huerta, surely soon to be filled with condo commandos and goggle-eyed beachgoers clueless to and with little appreciation for where they really are. Might as well be in Disneyland.

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"Florida can never really come to grips with saving the environment because a very large percentage of the population at any given time just got there. So why should they fight to turn the clock back? It looks great to them the way it is. Two years later, as they are beginning to feel uneasy, a few thousand more people are just discovering it all for the first time and wouldn't change a thing. And meanwhile the people who knew what it was like twenty years ago are an ever-dwindling minority, a voice too faint to be heard."
John D. MacDonald, "The Empty Copper Sea" (1978)