I haven't read all the comments ... people in business use loopholes to their advantage all the time; it isn't something only this little company did.  I don't see an issue with Main Street either.  Perhaps our Planning Commission will simply look to Amsterdam and outline a "little green sign" that goes into the window of a "coffee shop"; unlike an Amsterdam "cafe."  

"But the business proposed by McAneney, a relative newcomer, could harm Talkeetna's long-cultivated image as a tourism destination," McCann said.  I doubt that, I think Amsterdam has a much longer reign in the image of a tourist destination.