At Pearl Market (also known as Carmella's Pizza) in Denver's Northfield neighborhood, you may have looked right past the mural in the front of the building without thinking much about it. But, for owner Dustin Chiappetta, it was all he thought about for the better part of a year.

"We had gone through the process of painting it," Chiappetta told CBS Colorado. "We went to turn it into the city, and the city basically said that doesn't qualify as a mural."

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Despite working with the Stapleton Design Review Board and believing everything was in order, the city of Denver's zoning board didn't see it the same way. Instead, the mural apparently did not meet the criteria of being a mural, and the application that would've provided Chiappetta with his certificate of occupancy was delayed.

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