Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for sheriff of Pitkin County, CO, which followed the 1969 defeat of "freak power" candidate Joe Edwards, included a promise to jackhammer the streets of Aspen and replace the asphalt with sod. The city would use the discarded asphalt "to create a huge parking and auto-storage lot on the outskirts of town."

Good luck to Brighton, Bristol, and York, UK, for giving that idea another look.