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Denver neighborhood bans children from drawing chalk art on sidewalk
myfoxny.com ^ | June 21, 2012

Posted on 06/21/2012 12:19:13 PM PDT by grundle

Denver mom Sarah Cohen says drawing sidewalk chalk art is one of her three-year-old daughter Emerson's "simple pleasures in life."

"It's definitely better than video games," Cohen told KCNC.

However, the homeowner's association in Cohen's neighborhood feels differently. They say Emerson's drawings -- usually of hearts and flowers -- are distracting and offensive blights on their community.

"My initial reaction was, 'You have to be kidding me," Cohen said.

The association, called Innovations and Courtyard Traditions at Stapleton, temporarily banned children from drawing on sidewalks, saying anything that offends, disturbs or interferes with the peaceful enjoyment is not allowed on shared spaces.

They said neighbors have been complaining about chalk drawings like Emerson's.

The group's attorney told the station that the association is going down a path of "do no harm" and is temporarily banning the chalk art until it is discussed in depth at a later meeting. It will then be up to the residents to decide if the art will be permanently banned.

Cohen said she has not personally received any complaints from neighbors, and her daughter will continue to draw as a sort of mini protest against the temporary ban.


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KEYWORDS: hoa; homeownerassociation; nannystate; worldisgoingbonkers
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To: grundle
...saying anything that offends, disturbs or interferes with the peaceful enjoyment is not allowed on shared spaces.

Doesn't this law offend, disturb or interfere with peoples' peaceful enjoyment?

Irony is dead.

41 posted on 06/21/2012 2:54:51 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: grundle

Shame on those spoiled kids. They should have their butts belted every time they do it. They are supposed to be smoking dope, manufacturing meth in their back yards, mugging elderly ladies, breaking the neighbors’ windows, riding their bikes through everyone’s flower beds and calling their mothers a bitch.


42 posted on 06/21/2012 2:58:26 PM PDT by jmax (Be warned....I'm armed. Round is chambered, full magazine is inserted, safety is off.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

You just describe The Neighbor From Hell next door.

I keep praying the eagles around here will take of her yappers...


43 posted on 06/21/2012 3:09:16 PM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: Mears

I didn’t say complaining - I said enforcing.

Most HOA’s I’ve run into had the “nothing better to do crowd” serving on the board. They liked the power and loved to get in somebody’s face at every opportunity.

For the most part they were female, retired and blustery.


44 posted on 06/21/2012 3:11:02 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: CrazyIvan; bikerman

We moved to a property with neighbors far-far away too - because of neighbors

HOA - What’s that? I can scream the word all over the yard and no one will call the cops or HOA :>).....’HO-A’


45 posted on 06/21/2012 3:16:57 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: TurkeyLurkey

How about welcome to the United States of Fagland.

On the other hand, who would be stupid enough to live in an HOA (HomO nerds Association)?


46 posted on 06/21/2012 3:22:32 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil.)
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To: TurkeyLurkey

How about welcome to the United States of Fagland.

On the other hand, who would be stupid enough to live in an HOA (HomO nerds Association)?


47 posted on 06/21/2012 3:22:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
There's a dog barking next door right now. Doesn't bother me too much. What DOES bother me is when the dog barks at 7am. Then I want to shoot it.

But it's really the a$$hole owner's fault. He may love his dog, but the whole neighborhood shouldn't suffer.

48 posted on 06/21/2012 3:27:50 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: Ladysmith

Call animal control to find out what the regulations are regarding barking dogs.

When I had problems I was living in Colorado Springs. After my two encounters (I was niave, but not stupid, I didn’t have a third, the extreme attitude of two different barking dog owners made me realize that the majority must be assholes) I did just that , called animal control. I found out the rules, in C/S they are pretty strict, and then filed a complaint.

I’m a kind of live and let live guy, so filing a complaint was kind of a big deal for me. However, I knew that in the end someone was going to be angry, and until that point it had been me. Filing a complaint made the other guy angry I;m sure, but my anger went away. I also got to sleep, and that alone makes a person happier. That’s because the barking stopped. I didn’t know how, nor did I care.

Over the years, I filed at least a half dozen complaints. To do it over, I’d probably file two dozen. It just isn’t in my nature to complain always. I think A lot of nieghbors would have been happier if someone (me) had carried the ball more often.

Remember, the person you’re filing the complaint against, in all likelyhood, is an asshole. One thing that is undeniable, they don’t give a rats ass what you think, how miserable their barking dog makes you feel, or how much their actions disturb your life. They’re assholes.

Sorry for the use of that word, but I can’t come up with a more accurate description that I can use here of who and what these barking dog owners are.


49 posted on 06/21/2012 3:46:13 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: boop

See my post immediately following yours.

I faced a similar situation many a time, and let it slide. To do it over again, I wouldn’t. I’d call animal control and file, and you should too.

Your neighbor doesn’t give a rats ass about how you or anyone else in the area feels, and that attitude should be reciprocal.

At 7 in the morning, someone is going to be really ticked off. Why should it be you and a dozen other people? It doesn’t have to be. It can be just one guy. See how much anxiety you can help alleviate?


50 posted on 06/21/2012 3:57:06 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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To: grundle


51 posted on 06/21/2012 4:12:10 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet
Ya beat me! I was thinking this is why the neighbors were complaining ... ;-)


52 posted on 06/21/2012 4:40:23 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: bikerman

one of my neighbor’s is always calling the city on me: dog is barking, grass grown too long, is the contractor working on my house licensed?

Ahole neighbors is the reason we moved to 10 Acres in the middle of the woods.

I have one of those too, he calls on my labs almost daily. Had a visit this morning from animal control about a call that came in last night. I had to tell animal control that the idiot who called is completely surrounded by dogs and how can me be certain it was mine that were barking?

My Ahole neighbor is the reason I purchased a .40 Glock 23 - he racked a shotgun at the kids celebrating newyears a few years back.


53 posted on 06/21/2012 4:55:11 PM PDT by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: grellis

If I remember correctly the city owns the side walks.


54 posted on 06/21/2012 5:31:15 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("The plans I have for you are plans to prosper you.,not to harm you, Plans to give you hope)
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To: grundle

The problem is that most of the gated communities seem to be populated with retired people who once enjoyed a certain amount of power in their younger days. The still think that they deserve the respect that their money and jobs gave them.

Simply put, they have too much time on their hands.


55 posted on 06/21/2012 7:40:28 PM PDT by Eva
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To: henkster
Perhaps if the little girl drew a hammmer & sickle instead of hearts and flowers, the neighbors might approve.

I've got a friend who has said for years that homeowners associations are for closet socialists who can't get enough government in their lives.

That little girl would have been in a heap of trouble if she had drown a Cross or the American flag.
56 posted on 06/21/2012 8:04:21 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: USMCWife6869
I am so SO glad I don’t have an HOA.

I couldn't stand it, not after spending a large chunk of my youth and then adulthood in military housing or subdivisions.

When my wife and I bought our last house, we made it a point to live in an area where property values don't have to be propped up by nanny staters measuring the length of your grass or the height of your mailbox or whether the American flag you're flying is a couple of inches too large.
57 posted on 06/21/2012 8:07:55 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: BooBoo1000
If I remember correctly the city owns the side walks.

Pretty sure some taxpayer dollars were involved with those sidewalks at some point.

That is, unless the city is running its own treasury and printing up its own money.
58 posted on 06/21/2012 8:11:16 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Bigg Red

Hey, there not my kids...


59 posted on 06/25/2012 9:41:23 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: BooBoo1000

City ownership of sidewalks is completely normal. That’s not what I’m saying—regardless of who owns the sidewalk, the homeowner is paying taxes and upkeep fees on it, that I can almost guarantee. It’s sleight of hand municipal policy across the country. That strip of land, between the sidewalk and the street—”easemant”—homeowners think they own that, too, and they don’t—not outright. If they remove an easement tree without permission, they can be fined AND charged the price of a replacement tree. They can also be charged with removal costs if they dare plant a tree on the easement without city approval (and a permit, $$$). This is how cities operate. And that easement land? Subject to property taxation.


60 posted on 06/27/2012 4:31:42 PM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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