The following editorial appeared in the Elm City paper.
“The construction last year of a shopping mall in downtown Oak City was a
 mistake. Since the mall has opened, a number of local businesses have closed,
 and the downtown area suffers from an acute parking shortage, and arrests for
 crime and vagrancy have increased in the nearby Oak City Park. Elm City should
 pay attention to the example of the Oak City mall and deny the application to
 build a shopping mall in Elm City.”