@Netguysteve wrote:
By "Public Lot" are referring to one of the large parks or one of the smaller parks in the "shared" area of a neighborhood? If it is one of the large parks, you should be able to enter build/buy mode. If it's in a public area, then you will need to use a debug cheat to move it on to an editable lot. You should be able to enable testing cheats, shift click on it, and claim ownership, at which point you should be able to move it to a lot where you can delete it, in theory anyway. I've used this method to get rid of stray items just outside my lot's borders in the past. Not sure it will work for "build" objects though.
I tried what you suggested, but it's still there. The chest tables are no longer usuable, which isn't a big deal, but it is quite annoying.