The parade started out for golf carts only but has morphed into a huge event with many local businesses using it for promotional purposes.
Several rules will be in place this year that are aimed at making the parade a local hometown patriotic celebration, since it has become larger and more commercialized than intended, officials said.
"It went too far when large 18 wheelers were allowed in with minimum if any patriotic decorations," Gaddo said. "It started to be more an opportunity to market a business rather than to celebrate our nation's independence and the birth of democracy here."
Safety was one of the reasons to scale the parade
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