When a person lives in an area and can't afford to upgrade or buy acreage, they should have the decency to maintain their property for themselves as well as others, and those others should do the same.
If all people made an effort to do these things, I believe others would help them if they fell on hard times. In this case it sounds like she made no effort what so ever.
Communities pass these type laws for the few people like her. I won't tell someone how to live, but they should darn well try to make an effort to conform to a communities standards.
If all people made an effort to do these things, I believe others would help them if they fell on hard times. In this case it sounds like she made no effort what so ever.
Communities pass these type laws for the few people like her. I won't tell someone how to live, but they should darn well try to make an effort to conform to a communities standards.
I can appreciate and agree with much of the above. With that said....still the Gov't (at all levels) has no business growing itself in to a role where it is dictating how people live...and how they maintain THEIR property...for which they are taxed on daily.
The bottom line is....if one wants everyone around them to live a certain way....they should buy up as much land as they can around them.....in order to ensure this. The notion that if one doesn't do this....they should look to the Gov't is crazy to me. And as anti-true America as a policy can be.
Lastly I would say we can't legislate or "fine" people into morality. That someone "should" out of decency try and keep up their "yard" is one thing.....to take that to the level where local Gov't should be allowed to "fine" them is utterly ridiculous.
I won't tell someone how to live, but they should darn well try to make an effort to conform to a communities standards.
A darn scary concept....and you very well are telling them how to live....if by standards you mean...it dictating how and what they are allowed to do on their OWN property.
It is their property. Not yours and not the Gov't. We are losing this fundamental concept......and doing so out of the "good for the community" BS.