Speaking of tangled webs, Henry Te wanted his property to be annexed by the Town of Franklin so he could start up a convenience store. You see, the sin of liquor sales can be expunged by drawing your map lines just right. What is vice in sprawl contributes to a vibrant new urbanist tourism identity. Well, the town couldn’t just say come on in. It had to crawl through books and look at a whole host of arbitrary and archaic annexation law before it could make a decision that may or may not make sense for the given situation. As always in zoning law, application is a function of how much government the property owner wants to buy.