This is an issue that's *wasted* an incredible amount of our time.

There, fixed it for you.

You know, if it were 1950 and this discussion was going on, I could see their point, but in light of all ways terrorists find to fuck with us, this seems a sane approach, certainly.

How concerned are these Historic Preservation folks, really, given that a few blocks away the genuinely historic Franklin High School is being destroyed (err, "renovated") and they're not raising a peep?