For the second time, in recent weeks, members of the Superior City Council declined an opportunity to purchase two of the three vacant lots located between Superior Spirits and Flatwater Bar & Grill.

Brandon Fullerton offered to sell the lots and use the proceeds to install a new hood in his establishment’s kitchen. The hood has been purchased but when Fullerton went to replace a nonworking hood, the fire marshall’s office refused to allow it to be attached to the common wall location of the previous hood. Consequently, relocation of the hood will require a rearrangement of the food preparatio...