Does leasing property work differently where some of you folks live?
Where I'm from, signing a lease on a piece of property makes you the property owner's tenant, not the property owner's bitch. Unless the you agree upfront in the lease, taking out a lease does not give the landlord any power over the day-to-day operation of your business.
I'd like to see the clause inthe lease that tells the bakery that the landlord has control over their customer base and what they will and won't produce.
This is the prime question that needs to be answered. Unless it's in the lease, the landlord (city government or not) needs to STFU and let the bakery go about its business.
So, does anyone have the part of the lease that says the city can run the bakery's business?