The donated handmade wooden benches are not ADA compliant so the city is forcing the builder to remove them. So having literally nothing is the alternative. Also the city says the builder can put the benches in their parks, but wouldn’t that also need to be ADA compliant?
I think it is more about hating the poors.
What I get from the article is that the city could poor some concrete and make them compliant but is choosing to go with nothing instead.