Nelson Versus King County
Posted on 01/24/2009 4:01:29 AM PST by JoeProBono
Pete Nelson, who runs Treehouse Point in Fall City, Wash., built a treehouse without a permit. Nelson admits he built the treehouse without a permit from the county, saying, "It probably wasn't the right thing to do." The county has a file a couple of inches thick on Nelson...The county found out after Nelson cut down a tree and was caught doing it by a neighbor. That neighbor reported Nelson to the county — and the truth came out.
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Nelson Versus King County
I started my lawn mower to cut up some dry twigs yesterday, hope no one saw me/s........you forgot the barf alert.
that is wayyy cool.
So, apparently King County has solved ALL of its other problems, thereby allowing officials to concentrate on unauthorized tree houses.
The county knows how to count votes, now it can move on to other problems.
I forced myself to read the entire article, so you don’t have to. (Actually I heard it on NPR yesterday so I knew how it turned out.)
The problem isn’t that he cut down a tree, as the opening paragraph implies, but that he built in a flood zone without a building permit.
He wants to turn the treehouse into a bread and breakfast, so yeah, zoning needs to get involved.
From the article:
“The treehouse was located in what we call the channel migration zone, where the Raging River, which it’s next to, is anticipated to move into this area,” Miles says.
“The river’s changing course has already taken out several homes, so the county doesn’t want people to build next to it.”
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“But for Nelson’s treehouse, Mother Nature will eventually weigh in. He says the Raging River did flood this month. Some ferns between the treehouse and the river washed away. But the trees holding up the house are fine — for now.”
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
Admire your fortitude.
You don't get it. If he owned the property, he should be able to cut down ALL the trees if he wants. If we don't have that right, lets do away with private property all together and all become a communist commune! No more property taxes.... Yea!
No, YOU don’t get it. If you bother to actually read the entire story, you will find this was NOT ABOUT HIS CUTTING DOWN TREES. It was about his building a treehouse, trying to license it as a Bed and Breakfast, and needing to get it inspected and certified first.
Sheesh.
“in Fall City, Washington”
(someone said King County, the corrupt Demwit county that manufactured two consecutive Demwit governors)
This might deserve a ping to your libertarian ping list.
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