Christmas Tree Lane's Walk Nights could end: This is why

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A beloved Christmas contented could beryllium nearing its extremity - the Fig Garden Home Owners Association volition halt Christmas Tree Lane's Walk Nights unless the metropolis oregon the region steps up to lick an contented they accidental could crook the Christmas acquisition into "Fresno's Mardi Gras."

According to the Fig Garden HOA newsletter, vendors person go the main crushed wherefore Walk Nights could stop. They accidental vendors "have taken positions connected residents' backstage property, blocked driveways and broadside roads, and person been assertive to residents who asked them to leave."

"This is simply a immense disappointment for maine personally. I've spent the past 8 years helping enactment these Walk Nights on, and our household and friends emotion it," said Dan Gallagher, portion of the HOA board.

Although the newsletter says vendors are not the lone situation that the committee faces during Walk Nights, they are the main crushed wherefore they privation to discontinue the beloved tradition.

Officials accidental they worked with instrumentality enforcement during past year's Walk Nights to effort to halt vendors from taking over, but erstwhile a lawman would inquire them to leave, vendors would conscionable determination oregon disregard the request; the committee says this is due to the fact that determination are nary ordinances allowing instrumentality enforcement to confiscate instrumentality oregon mention vendors.

The HOA committee denounces that this contented has tampered with the ambiance of Walk Nights, which is expected to beryllium 1 of "joy and peace;" if allowed to continue, they fearfulness the carnival ambiance volition beryllium little astir the "peace and joyousness of Christmas" and go much into "Fresno's Mardi Gras."

Gallagher says that unless the metropolis oregon region of Fresno establishes "specific plans with consequences" for vendors, the committee volition halt hosting Walk Nights, ending a two-decade-old tradition. Read the newsletter by clicking here.