For the past 30 years, Lee Sepanek and his wife Patricia have celebrated the holidays by festooning their Phoenix home with 250,000 festive lights. The couple’s annual display draws visitors from all over.
But this year, their house will be dark.
The reason: City officials have raised concerns about noise, traffic and parking issues, as well as with the Sepaneks’ sales of cocoa and baked goods to offset costs, the Arizona Republic reported.
“I even bought a whole bunch of new stuff,” Lee Sepanek, 66, told Phoenix’s Fox 10. “I was gonna add stuff to my windows. I was going to increase my displays, my window displays. Now they’re in storage.”
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