The AJC reports that Marietta has canceled its decade-long tradition of daytime “Concerts on the Square”.  Why?

…few of the city and county employees headquartered just blocks away ever showed up with store-bought fare. In their place came moms toting dancing toddlers, said Mike Gabler, a city parks official.

“It rapidly turned into a moms’ day out type of thing,” he said.

Businesses complained about the parking spaces lost to the concert.

…Stores and restaurants initially embraced the idea, thinking it would boost their bottom line. But it didn’t turn out that way.