Posted on 08/11/2002 9:08:12 AM PDT by Madcelt
Hendersonville, NC inspectors may enter your home when neighbors complain
by Andrew Schultz
The Hendersonville Tribune.
The ordinance is enforced “mostly on a complaint basis” by neighbors or tenants
”There’s no reason for government officials to go into a home,” unless there’s a health hazard to the community, says resident Tony Slovacek. “Your home is sacred. I’d like to see them try and go into mine.”
Over the last few years, Slovacek and his wife, B.J., have renovated their large home, yet Slovacek admits you couldn’t tell by looking at the outside since most of his labor has focused on the interior. “It sounds like that [code] was written to get government funding,” he says, because the city isn¹t strongly enforcing the ordinance.
Should the city take increased action, Slovacek says, “The minute they start getting people to come into your house they’ll be lots of lawsuits.” After reading the code, Hendersonville resident Jean Schell says, “This doesn’t worry me. If the spirit of this law honestly protects people from substandard living than I think it’s useful.” Schell admits that her home would not pass inspection, even though she’s trying to make repairs. ”I guess the best protection is that my neighbors are excellent,” she says. ”It’s a sad state of affairs if my neighbor had to go to the law instead of coming to me.” However, Schell disagrees with letting inspectors enter her home.
”I think that too much bureaucracy solves nothing,” she says. When the issue of zoning her neighborhood a local historic district arose, Schell fought it. “I don¹t want to have to ask someone if I can put up a fence,” she says. In Montreat, NC the Planning and Zoning board is considering implementing new regulations mandating, among others, that “every homeowner be required to provide an off-street parking space for every bedroom in the house” and regulating what landscape elements are appropriate, i.e. bushes, shrubs trees, etc.
Hendersonville Zoning Department – 828-697-3010
This is frightening, but the article below it deserves it's own thread WNC’s Henderson county schools to encourage acceptance of homosexuality
I'm going to go ahead and post it.
What the HE!! is going on in Henderson county?
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