The Little Saigon debacle seemed mostly resolved when Mayor Chuck Reed signed a peace deal with protesters in the Vietnamese community that promised that banners displaying the “Little Saigon” name could be flown to officially recognize the Vietnamese retail area. But what wasn’t spelled out was how many banners could go up. Certain members of the Vietnamese community got a little irked recently when they were told they couldn’t have the 40 or even 20 banners they requested along Story Road. “Maybe they don’t want Little Saigon all over the place.” said Barry Hung Do, who is leading the Little Saigon effort. “It’s a political game that they are playing.” Do pointed to San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin Newsom recently recognized a neighborhood now known as Little Saigon in the city, and ponied up most of the cash needed to pay for the gateway sign that identified the area as such. “They don’t have Chuck Reed and Madison [Nguyen] up there,” Do said. “There is no fighting at all; the community asked and they got it.” But what Do did not mention is that San Jose is allowing the community to put up the banners even though it goes against the city’s current policy, which doesn’t allow for banners in areas that are not official neighborhood business districts. The city is allowing the group to put up the temporary banners while Reed and the council rewrite the city’s code that would allow for all 20 banners along Story Road. “It’s not that we said they are bad,” said Joe Horwedel, planning director. “We are just working in the policy direction of the council.”