In letter, businesses insist city close streets, require toilets and tents for Aug. 12 rally Business owners say they are concerned for the safety of their businesses and patrons if the rally gets out of hand.

According to Albemarle County spokeswoman Lee Catlin, the organizers of the Patriot Movement’s planned “1Team1Fight” event in Darden Towe Park, which was being relocated from Greenville, South Carolina, have called it off.

Catlin said the organizers reportedly canceled their event because of “unknown variables with the opposition.”

Earlier in the week, an organizer for the event, who goes by the name Chevy Love on Facebook, said the event was not affiliated with the Unite the Right rally, saying that she did not want to associate with any of the “hate groups” expected to attend, listing both left- and right-wing activist groups.

Earlier in the week, before the organizers canceled the event in Darden Towe Park, the National Socialist Movement announced that members will be in attendance at the Unite the Right rally to “defend Free Speech and our Heritage at the Lee Monument.”

In an interview, Butch Urban, the movement’s chief of staff, said the organization had been planning to attend the event after it was arranged by Kessler earlier this summer.