Two days after Fort Lauderdale agreed to fight a state order to remove a rainbow pride flag and three other artsy designs painted on a local street, the state fired off a letter listing seven more sites that need to be removed.

The letter, sent Friday at 6:32 p.m. and signed by Florida Department of Transportation District Secretary Steven Braun, gives the city a hearing date of Sept. 15 to make its case for keeping the street art, but warns there will be no change of heart.

Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Steve Glassman suggested the state find better things to do than crack down on street art.

“That FDOT would send an emailed letter at 6:32 p.m. on a Friday night of a holiday weekend tells you all you need to know,” he said. “Every resident should be saddened and outraged at this state

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