Friday, February 19, 2010

California 2007 Trip End

November 10:

On Saturday I had breakfast (of sorts) with R**** and talked with her until a little too late. I intended to leave at 10 AM, but didn’t get packed and on my way until about 10:45 AM.

I said my goodbyes and headed down to Santa Barbara after getting gas (at mile 1479.8; $10 worth giving 2.916 gallons at $3.42/gal; only 133.1 miles since last fill-up). Due to starting late, under-estimating the time a bit and running into a backup because of an accident (it looked like a truck had dumped it’s load of pipes on the highway), I got to my friends’ house an hour and a half late at 3:30 PM. We chatted for a few hours.

I left about 5:30 PM. I should have gotten gas before I got back on the 101, but I forgot. At about 6:30 PM, south of Oxnard, I got a low gas light and started looking for gas again. This time I got $30 (didn’t fill it up) giving 8.985 gallons at $3.339/gal. This was at mile 1816.3 having gotten gas (in the morning) 336.4 miles previous.
I arrived at home and moved everything back to my apartment at about 8 PM. Final mileage was 1860.6, 44 miles after getting gas.

No pictures for today. Sorry.

Wrap-up:
Well, I made the trip and hit most of my goals. I visited 35 City Halls and obtained 29 maps, plus two more purchased to be mailed and one call-back (an average of 7 City Halls and 6 maps per day). The total cost of all of the maps I purchased was $430.45 meaning an average of $13.89 per map. Total mileage was 1860.6 miles, averaging 310 miles per day. Only 4 of the 5 days were full days. Friday I only visited 3 City Halls and then drove back to San Jose to visit R****.

In retrospect, I would not do this again. I basically spent each day driving from City Hall to City Hall getting maps (or finding out they didn’t have them) and didn’t have much time to see each city other than quick observations between the freeway and each City Hall. I would cut the number of visits at least in half, giving at least an hour to visit a city outside of City Hall. Probably I would cut down to 2 or 3 cities per day to actually absorb the city a little better. Perhaps I will do some return visits.

I now have lots of zoning information and some information on how to keep this information up-to-date using the web. However, I still don’t really know what to do with these yet other than collect them. For a future trip I might collect maps for cities in the Los Angeles and adjoining counties – anything I can get to on a day trip during the week (since I will have Fridays available).

California 2007 Trip Day 5

November 9:

This was sort of a half day. I finished up at Santa Cruz then went to Monterey and Salinas and that was it for the day. I then drove back to San Jose to stay at a friend’s place.

I started out at 8:22 AM after checking out. The cost was $75.90 for the night (I had it wrong yesterday). The 2nd trip meter indicated I had only driven 4.4 miles since I bought gas (it seemed longer). The first trip meter said 1351.1 miles at the start of the day. I skipped breakfast as usual.

The weather was mostly gray like yesterday. However, the sun came out while I was there and it got rather warm in my jacket. On the way back up to San Jose, it rained several places.
Here’s the city rundown:

Santa Cruz:
I’m starting to hate Santa Cruz. Both times I’ve gone over the bridge at Water to get to City Hall I’ve taken the wrong turn and ended up having to improvise my way around. I finally found the parking garage on Locust again and parked.

Since I was there early enough there would be people in the office, finding someone wasn’t a problem. The problem was they were out of zoning maps. Still I paid for a map ($35) and postage ($10) making Santa Cruz the costliest map on this trip (at least in total). I left at about 10 AM.

Monterey:
Due to poor directions and bad street design I got totally lost in Monterey. I ended up parking and walking around with a street map. I knew roughly where I was, but hadn’t found enough streets to actually match up the streets with the map. Eventually, I saw enough street names that I finally found one on the map and everything made sense. I actually was only a few blocks from where I needed to be.

The zoning map cost $2 and I was done at about 10:30. I called R**** and waited in the park eating chocolate to hear back from her (I hadn’t eaten anything for the day). After I finished the chocolate, I went to the library and signed on to yahoo to check out my email. I walked back to the car and as I was shuffling things around R**** called back. I was off to my last city for the day.

Salinas:
Salinas struck me as a bigger city, but no nonsense. I didn’t see any big fancy buildings (other than a church), either in the areas I was driving or off in the distance. The City Hall was a one story non-descript building next to the police department. The offices for zoning were at 65 W. Alisal, which was converted from a Wells Fargo Bank building (you could still see the outlines of the name on the sign that now had the address). I got the zoning map for $30.17 ($28 plus tax). It was around 12:30 when I was done. I was lucky there were open; there was only one person there during lunch.

I changed my shirt in the car and headed for the 101. Unfortunately, my map directions didn’t work too well. It took a few tries to get onto the road I wanted. Finally, I was on it and it did in fact have access to the 101. I think that’s the farthest south I’ve approached San Jose from (although I think I went down to Carmel once). It was occasionally rainy, but otherwise uneventful. The directions were straightforward and I remembered most of the freeways anyway.

California 2007 Trip Day 4

November 8:

This was a less stressful day. I only had five cities scheduled for today. Originally, I had six, but when I didn’t go all the way up to Redding, I also didn’t make it to Eureka. The day didn’t start or end well, but I got everything in between. I started out at 8:39 AM – a little late, but since I had a lighter schedule, I rested a bit more. I clocked the mileage when I got gas and when I ended the day yesterday. However, I forgot to zero the 2nd trip odometer when I got gas in Red Bluff. At the end of the day, I had about 475 miles on it, which includes all of the distance from the last two fill-ups. Today I had a full lunch after getting my last planned map for the day in Novato. I had it at a place called Moylan’s. It reminded me of Tied House in Mountain View. Lunch cost about $17.15, plus tip (I did my math wrong and tipped low). I got cash in Petaluma after I got my map. I got gas somewhere around Santa Cruz at 4:38 PM. The total mileage on the trip2 odometer was 680.8 miles. Subtracting the setting at the last tank filling, that was 205 miles on that tank. I filled up with $25 of gas, which didn’t fill the tank. It got me 7.228 gallons, which works out to $3.46 per gallon. I think I was running above 42 miles per gallon on this leg.

After being unsuccessful getting my Santa Cruz map, I headed toward Watsonville for Motel 6. Unfortunately, this was somewhere around 4 PM and Highway 1 South was very slow. I made an attempt to stop off at a small town south of Santa Cruz (the signs said it had hotels), but gave up and headed back to Santa Cruz. I saw a Best Western right off Ocean and stopped there. The charge for the night is about $67.

It was gloomy pretty much all day. I needed my jacket most of the day. There was one crack of sun right after I left Novato. I thought it was an indication that things were clearing up south of the bay. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Below is my rundown for the day:

Ukiah:
This stop was very short. I stopped at the town hall at about 8:48 AM. They had no zoning maps available (it was being revised) and their engineer was out until next week. I left my name and number, but I’m not sure if I will hear anything. Basically, my trip as far north as I went was a waste because I didn’t get anything at Red Bluff or Ukiah. Moving on …

This was a nice small town in the hills. I liked the Civic Center building. Since it was on Seminary Avenue, I wonder if it was once a seminary or church.

Healdsburg:
I got lost on my way in (bad directions). After I asked directions, while walking around, I found the place no problem. The map was $10. I got it at about 10:03 AM. There were a few sculptures outside of the main building, including a horse. I took a few pictures.
The town looked small but prosperous, with many yuppie shops and museums. However, I also noticed a lot of probably undocumented workers hanging around the park, probably looking for work.

Santa Rosa:
This was a much bigger town with lots more banks and several impressive buildings (both in size and architectural style). I parked too early and had to walk several blocks, but I found the City Hall eventually. The map cost $20 when I got it, at about 10:47 AM. I noticed one building had solar panels on the roof. I also met up with an automatic ticket taker again. This time I remembered my ticket.
While there, I got a present for Renee. Since Santa Rosa is where Charles Schulz lived, there are a lot of Peanuts items around. At a comics and games shop I found a Peanuts Monopoly. I have no idea if she will like it, but it was something.

There was construction on the 101 around Santa Rosa. It didn’t have much effect on the way into town, but on the way out, since I followed the signs rather than my printed directions, I got stuck when the entrance ramp was being worked on (it didn’t exist). However, right when I was lost, I saw a sign for the 101 again and was able to find the alternate entrance.

Petaluma:
I couldn’t find directions to get into Petaluma. Either I skipped printing them or I misplaced them. Fortunately, I had a map that included the city, so I made my own plans. As I got to the center of town, there were signs for City Hall, so I followed these. They turned out to be confusing, but I did eventually find it. Signs for parking on the other hand seemed to be a complete fabrication. The parking at City Hall seemed to be for staff and I didn’t see a parking garage where it seemed to be indicated.
The city seems much more working class. It reminds me of San Leandro. I got the map at 11:58 AM for $20.

Novato:
The address for the town hall was about two years old. I called and got directions to the new location. It was simply down one exit at 75 Rowland Way (Room #110). The old building looked like a cross between a church and a barn. The new building looks like a business park (it was next to Staples and across from a movie theater).

I got the map at 12:53 PM. It cost $13.50. I did it on a credit card (the first time I had that option) because I didn’t have the right combination of bills and they didn’t have change. While the person went to get the map she asked me to mind the desk. It was very down home since I had just walked in.
As mentioned above, I stopped for lunch before pushing on.

Santa Cruz:
The drive was long but pretty close to the directions. The one odd thing was there were directions to switch from 580E to 980W to 880S. 980 never showed up as an option. I went right from 580E to 880S – well not right away, but I didn’t get lost. The traffic was a bit congested around Oakland (I think), but otherwise pretty clear. I guess I avoided rush hour on the east bay. The drive over 17S was as stressful as I remembered. I really had to pay attention.
My arrival in Santa Cruz started badly. I ended up on Ocean instead of the exit I was supposed to take. After I stopped and got a map, I mapped my own route to City Hall. That went pretty well. But when I got there, I found out they are only open to the public from 7:30 AM to Noon. They are the only city with those weird hours. Well, I guess I’ll be back tomorrow. Since I ended up in Santa Cruz for the night, this won’t affect my times much. Getting out onto the 1 again was problematic, but eventually successful.

California 2007 Trip Day 3

November 7:

This was definitely the worst day so far. I didn’t get maps from two of the nine cities I planned to hit today. Additionally, I spilled the cooler over a lot of the maps leaving 14 of 23 maps with some water damage although mostly minor and not ruining any of them for my purposes. I started off at about 8:10 AM and was doing OK until I hit Sacramento. I was running about 30 minutes behind for the rest of the day. I made it up to Red Bluff, but was late by only a few minutes. They closed at 5 PM. So I got some gas ($24.51 for 7.566 gallons; filling from a distance of 316.6 miles), had dinner (Denny’s for $10.02 plus tip) and then drove to Ukia. Supposedly, the trip on the 20 had beautiful scenery, but because it was dark, all I saw was a winding road that looked something like Skyline Blvd back in San Jose, only it was 70 miles rather than around 10. Around halfway over the mountain I started running into towns. Evidently, this is because of Clear Lake that I drove past, but only saw dimly. When I got to Ukiah I was confused about the directions to the Motel 6, so I ended up staying at an America Best Value Inn, which turned out to be at the intersection of Talmadge and State, across from a gas station I’d turned into to get maps. Somewhere in the trip, I think at or after Sacramento, I noticed fall colors on some of the trees and leaves on the ground. Here’s the rundown.

Merced:
A modern city hall in a quiet area – I could walk across streets without lights. The map was $10. I got it at 8:31 AM – a good start.

Atwater:
I messed up the directions a bit, but managed to find the City Hall with the help of a map. I had no problem getting the map, but had some confusion on the price. I ended up paying $10.26. I got the map around 9:03 AM. There was a funny mailbox out front. It said everything deposited would be destroyed – not much of a mail service.

Turlock:
Turlock was a small town. The City Hall was in a refurbished brick building. I think there had been a downtown revitalization project within the last few years. The map cost $28 (I think the highest for the day). I got it around 9:40 AM.

Modesto:
The City Hall address was correct, but the street had been turned into a city walk. Fortunately, I was able to find parking. The building was quite nice. I think it was both county and city offices. There was a fountain out front which was just trickling, probably due to water restrictions.
I had to wait for 15 minutes or so before I got some help. As the cities get bigger, it seems, the wait gets longer. The map cost $9.66 and I got it at 10:37 AM.

Stockton:
Parking was difficult. Although it was straightforward to find City Hall, there was very little parking available around the Hall. The one-way roads didn’t help. I ended up parking at a bank about a block down. The building was an impressive old-style building. There is also a great view of the river. Unfortunately, that building didn’t have the maps. I ended up making three stops total before I found the right building. Fortunately the annexes were across the street. I ended up getting the map from the office of the person whom I talked to. It still cost $14. I got the map around 11:42 AM – about 15 minutes behind schedule.

Sacramento:
This was a big disaster on several fronts. Sacramento no longer has print maps. The front desk person told me this, but I decided to talk to a more senior person. That was about a 30 minute wait. That person told me the same thing. However, he did suggest getting a PDF from their website printed at Kinko’s to get a large printout. Strike 1.

The City Hall building was very impressive, in the old style. However, it seems that building is just for show and the real activity happens in the new building just behind it (in fact you walk through the old building to enter a courtyard in front of the new building).

When I went back to parking, I tried using the automated machine. I ended up without a receipt and left the ticket, which evidently was offered back to me after I paid my parking ($3), but I didn’t notice. The woman at the gate suggested I go back to look for it (which it turned out was a waste of time). Being frustrated I was racing up the garage to find a space. I stopped suddenly when I saw a space causing my cooler to lurch forward and spill ice, drinks and water over my zoning maps. I did a quick survey and then raced around looking for my ticket, which I didn’t find. I did a more complete reshuffle, wedging the cooler in between the back seat and the back of the front seat and piled all of the maps on the back seat (which is how I started). I didn’t find out the state of the maps until I got a hotel room. All of this put me horribly behind for the rest of the day.

Marysville:
This was another small town. This took me off the main highways and put me on two lane county roads. With the fall foliage, it reminded me of driving down ridge road or Brockport-Spencerport road between towns. Getting to the town hall wasn’t hard. The map was $5 and I got it around 2:34 PM.

After getting a street map, I ended up in a traffic jam of cars and trucks following the next CA route out of town, including some turns through town. I got a picture of State Theater, which was in an odd state of kept up in parts, but not in other ways. There also appears to be a lake and park in the town (I got a bad picture of this).

Chico:
This feels like a small college town. The runs in and out are one-way, as are several of the streets in downtown. I suspect this keeps things organized during starting weekend of College. This was also another one where the real City Hall was behind the main Hall. I actually got the map for free. It was a map with two outdated zones that was going to be thrown out. I got both a zoning and planning map all in one plus an explanation of the difference between the two (a planning map has less detail).

The trip out had some added aggravation. CA-99 and another route crossed going out of town. If you turned too early or two late, you ended up looping back to entering the town. It took a second try before I make the crossing correctly, slowing down a truck in the process.

Red Bluff:
This was the capper for the day. With all the wasted time in Sacramento, I arrived at the City Hall at 5:03 PM, three minutes, by my watch, after they closed. Actually, I think my watch is around 2 minutes fast, so it was even closer. The door was locked and the lights were off. There wasn’t much else to do, so I took some pictures and got some gas and food.

California 2007 Trip Day 2

November 6:
I made it through 8 more cities. I was able to get zoning maps from 7 of them. The last (Tulare) took my address and my money and promised to send a map. I think I also ended up with street maps for all of them too. I’m a little unsure because some of the smaller cities are actually covered in maps of their larger brethren. I forgot to write down miles after I got into my hotel. Hotel for the night is $43.99. Gas was $28.47 for 8.9 gallons (on credit card because I was running out of cash). My meter had 367.1 miles since my last fill-up (at Palm Springs I believe). Addendum added on 11/7: I finished the day at 719 miles for the trip.

I beat yesterday’s high price. Today’s winner is $37.50 at Visalia. It was special printed just for me. The size I originally asked for was $90 or so. Most of them were on the high side today. The rundown is below. I had to get cash twice today – once mid-day in Bakersfield and then in the evening in Fresno.
I had an adventure after departing Fresno for Merced. I realized I hadn’t gotten the directions out for the Motel 6 in Merced, so I pulled off at an off-ramp to Madera. I was expecting to go up a hill and then back down an on-ramp. Instead, I ended up paralleling the 99 for about 15 minutes (and stopping to get a map) through town during rush hour. Fun :<

I also got a normal dinner after getting settled in my room. In amongst gas stations and car dealerships and fast food chains was a Marie Callender’s. It was very nice after no breakfast and a fast lunch around 2:30 PM.

Victorville:
I started about 8:10 AM. I got my first map at about 8:30 AM. Pretty easy since it was just down the road. The building was easy to find, but the parking was confusing. I took the 2nd entrance to park which turned out to still be employee parking. The third entrance was for the public (good info for next time). The map cost $32.33 ($2.33 was tax).

Barstow:
Funny story – as I was on the off-ramp waiting to turn onto a street, the car in front blew its engine. It put out a lot of steam. It still ran and, since I was behind it, I got a nice smell of burning oil. On the way back from the City Hall, I saw another car that was smoking though I wasn’t sure from what. The city hall looked like part of a strip mall, but it was practical. The map cost $5.38 (again with the tax). It got it around 9:12 AM. This was still good time.

Bakersfield:
Now things started taking time. It took 2 hours to get to Bakersfield. Most of the highway was divided, but there were two stretches where it was just one lane each way. One of these surprises showed up a few miles from the start of the highway, which made me think the whole way was going to be at 55 mph staring at the taillights of a truck.

Somewhere toward the end, we hit mountains. This is probably the same range that the Grapevine goes over. Toward the end I noticed that the hills were greener or had more trees. This made sense because I had moved to the moist side of the range.

Finding the right place proved to be a bit of work. The building I wanted was a few blocks down from where I parked (which was in a medical building parking lot, not the City Hall lot). I was aiming for the Planning Department at 1715 Chester and 17th. I got the map around 11:36 AM for $20.

Delano:
This was a small town. There really was only one stop light. Everything else was stop signs. It was quaint until I had to back out of a parking space with backed up traffic. The map cost $1 and I got it around 12:42 PM. The woman at the front desk was asking me if I wanted any demographics info and gave me a pamphlet on the medical center. She was definitely the pushiest of the City Hall people I’ve met – not in a bad way.

Tulare:
This was my only failure so far. They didn’t have any maps but promised to mail me one. This was a smallish town/city (at least the parts I saw). It was a bit of a drive from the highway to the City Hall. After I got off the main road, most of the roads seemed to just use stop signs. Tulare’s water tower had an interesting touch. There appeared to be a giant accordion straw coming out of the top of the tower. There was also a nice park across from the building.

Visalia:
This was my adventures in taking smaller roads. Since Visalia was only about 10 miles from Tulare, the router took a state road (although it was well paved). This was the most frustrating city that I have run into. The planning department was in an annex further down the road (315 E. Acequin instead of 707 W. Acequin). The street was one way, so I was afraid of overshooting. I ended up parking in the 300 W. Acequin block first which was across from a building under construction. After realizing the mistake, I messed up exiting the parking lot. I then parked a block further than the annex I was after. Then I ran into the big issue (mentioned above) of the cost for a special plot -- $37.50. Because it was being made at my request, it took about 20 minutes to make. It gave me time to have a lunch. I believe I got this map around 3:00 PM. At first I thought I would have to cut Selma, but then realized I had enough time because Selma and Fresno were close.

Selma:
This was another small town. I parked a little short of the City Hall building, but only by a block. The building was a non-descript stucco building with an awning out front with “City Hall” on it. It struck me as funny, sort of like a hotel or apartment complex in New York City. This was also a custom plot, but only cost $20 for a 17”x22” drawing. This was actually in the Annex, but that was just across the street.

Fresno:
Now this was an impressive City Hall. The cornerstone said it was made in 1991. It was concrete structure, somewhat like the tower at LAX, but bigger. The rest was clear or darkened glass (the sun was setting so it was hard to tell). They gave me a Planned Land Use (2025 plan) map for $20. After that it was on to Merced.

California 2007 Trip Day 1

The following few posts are from a trip through California in November 2007. The object of the trip was simple - visit as many City Halls and collect as many zoning maps as possible while traveling through central and coastal California. Why City Hall? It made it easy to get directions from the online map applications. Why zoning maps? I like zoning maps.

Unfortunately, as you'll see from the text. All I really visited for the most part was just City Hall and a small area around it. Most of the text are my thoughts on the trip and the costs of hotel, food, gas and the zoning maps. Yes, it's fairly dry reading but it's my only record of the trip. At the end of each day there is a slide show of the images taken during that day. Click on the screen to go to the set in Flickr.

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November 5, 2007
After a late start last night, I got in to the Laguna Hills Lodge around Midnight or 12:30. Cost for the night was $130.90. I went to bed shortly after 1 AM but had trouble getting to sleep. I had a 7 AM wakeup call. After getting up and dressed and getting breakfast, I was on my way somewhere around 8:30 AM – a little later than I’d hoped. I was able to visit all 9 Town Halls on my list and get some form of zoning map from each. Some maps were free. Others cost between $2.15 and $20. I was finished about 4 PM (so I had lunch). I was rather surprised that I could get everything on my list done today. Basically, I only stopped to get maps and photos and not much else. Also, I was lucky that whichever city I visited during lunch (San Bernardino, I think) had people there during the lunch hour.

In addition to zoning maps, I was able to get a road map for each city except Mission Viejo. They were about $5 a piece, but I also bought some extra maps. Between the driving maps and zoning maps, mostly paid by cash, I ran out of money quickly and had to get $100 from WaMu. I may have to replenish my cash daily.

After finishing with Palm Springs I headed for Victorville. The directions worked fine. Unfortunately, I reset the wrong dial when I got gas. Now I have to remember to subtract 7 miles from the trip indicator. My total for the day, then, was 358 miles (approximately) compared to 343.3 miles estimated. The only thing I’m not sure of is how to get back on the I15 going the other way since I think I went past my exit to get to the Motel6. The cost for the night is $42.79.

Here is the rundown of each city. I’ll only mention items that were unexpected and details like costs.

Mission Viejo:
Directions were fine. I had no problem finding the Town Hall. I Got pictures of the town hall. The zoning map (a smallish color print, readily available) was free. I got it about 8:30 AM.

Oceanside:
City hall had a nice fountain in front with ducks in the fountain. The library was in front. There are a North and South building. I got pictures of all of this. The map cost $10.

Vista:
I forgot to take pictures of the town hall. It seemed somehow temporary, although it was on cement foundations. Next to the main area (with no parking; I had to park illegally) there was a dirt lot which looked like it might be the space for the permanent town hall. The zoning map cost $5. It’s about 20 sheets that may show the whole city. Since it’s hard to read, I haven’t looked at it much yet.

Escondido:
I had a little trouble finding the place. I parked a block away and walked back to find it. The building has a nice art deco look. There was a fountain and park in the back. The fountain wasn’t working (water shortage). A few homeless people were in the park. As I was driving away, I saw a giant bunch of grapes at the edge of the park. I got pictures of everything but that. Downtown also looked pretty good. The zoning map cost $4.50

Temecula:
I actually had to call the town hall to find it. It was in a business park and, while the directions were correct, the numbers for the buildings in the park weren’t linear. After I was given some other clues, I found it without a problem. The building looked like a regular business park building other than the flags out front and a lot of notices on or near the front door. The map cost $10.

Riverside:
There was major work on the freeway going through/around riverside. Amazingly, all of the exits in the directions were still open. When I got downtown, it turns out Main Street had turned into a city walk, so the directions got me close, but not quite there. After parking and dealing with a new-fangled parking meter, I walked the city walk, looking for the town hall. After going the wrong way for a few blocks and back-tracking, I finally found it. I liked the architecture of the building. However, it was obscured by other buildings in front of it. There was a park with a working fountain (actually two) beside it. There was also another park across the street. I have pictures of most of this. The zoning map was free.

San Bernardino:
The directions were accurate, but it would have been nice if it had pointed me at the parking garage that I found by accident. I found a legit parking space on the second try (the first try was on a floor reserved for a hotel). The town hall was a dark glass building. However, it had a nice waterfall staircase beside it and a statue of MLK. The zoning map cost $20. I had to go to the IT department to get it. Big map, but I got warned not to handle it to much so the colors don’t come off.

Banning:
I’m down to my last two for the day. Banning is a small town. I actually had the address slightly wrong. I probably still would have missed it. I went out the other side of town very quickly. When I turned around I found the building. It’s a non-descript adobe style. There was a park to one side with a fountain that was turned off. The map was $15.

Palm Springs:
I seem to have come in on the bad part of town. I also missed a turn because the directions were unclear. After buying a map, I was able to get to the town hall without the original directions. The town hall was near the airport. The directions described an odd U-turn that was unnecessary. A left turn had been put in to get people to the town hall. The building had a statue of someone on a horse outside. I didn’t look to see who it was. The map was $2.15. This was the one city where the City Clerk actually had the map.