A community battle is underway in the New Jersey town of West Orange after a bagel shop was found guilty of covering up its windows.
Turns out, it's illegal for stores in West Orange to keep windows closed so the public can't see what's going on, but the store has covered the windows since the pandemic when they moved the eatery part outside.But he says this is not the end of his fight.West Orange zoning officials have been onBagel business fined $1K per day because of covered windows
From the outside, you can't see inside. The city cites part of its zoning code, titled 'Appearance of Exterior of Premises and Structures,' to call his windows non-compliant."I don't think the ordinance is super clear, but it's clear enough to understand that it deals with covering the windows from the exterior, not the interior," Christopher Benevento said."So it just doesn't apply to this situation," Benevento said.
"They're misusing an ordinance purposely to come after me because I stood up to them and that's why we're here. Everyone knows it," Seltzer said.
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