To The Providence, RI City and State Officials Who Allowed This To Happen:

To The Providence, RI City and State Officials Who Allowed This To Happen:

I fail to understand how you could, in good conscience or otherwise, issue a smoking permit to a bar in a residential building.

Each day the smoke fills our halls, homes, and lungs because of your transgressions. You have failed us innocent, taxpaying, law-abiding citizens of Providence.

Government is supposed to look out for the interest and well being of everyone. Here, self-interest has trumped your civic duty.

I invite you to walk our halls, and come into my condo to experience just what we have to live with. This condo building is being absolutely ruined by the license you issued to the 520 Club. All of our freshly painted hallway walls, our newly installed hallway carpet that we, the condo owners, were levied a hefty special assessment to pay for have become infiltrated with the acrid stench of second hand smoke.

Our lungs are suffering in a similar fashion.

This damage cannot be undone. And yet you continue to evade any attempts to bring you to accountability to do something about this. How can you live with yourself?

I implore you to consider this situation from our perspectives, and re-evaluate the decision to grant a smoking permit to the 520 Club.

Sincerely,

Steph