The city's costs are enormous.   WJTV accurately estimated that the city will spend over $30,000 total to fight this treehouse in the courts.   The Mayor refuses to reveal the city's actual legal bill.  The public is outraged and write several letters to the editor urging the city to stop wasting taxpayer's money. 

     To highlight the staggering degree to which government regulations can harm average Americans, The National Center for Public Policy Research's John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs will soon publish its fifth compilation of stories of victims of regulatory and government abuse featuring the Treehouse as its Signature case. The publication highlights how regulations that are poorly written and/or inflexibly enforced can overwhelm, intimidate, bankrupt or otherwise harm average Americans.