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Originally Posted by IceCream
Well, we presented to the Vieux Carre Commission and instead of offering legitimate concerns they proceeded to use the whole time alloted to criticize our design: called it cheap, not historic, and cheesy....but big surprise from those a**holes. The racks, in my mind, are very similar in design to the black trashcans in the quarter which indeed have a fleur de lis cutout welded onto them.
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Those people are so damn petty. Your rack design is fine. Maybe the French Quarter could get a unique one though? I wonder how expensive it would be to purchase a basic hitch rack in black, and then weld one of those horse-head finials onto the top.
The bike racks would then replace the existing hitching posts, which serve absolutely
no function except to prevent people from walking side-by-side. They're useless as bike racks, since you can just lift a bike over the top.
Just don't let this woman get near them:
The other option would be to use your existing fleur-de-lis design but to get it in black, so it matches the other street furniture. Green iron on top of brick or slate sidewalks might be a little gaudy.