Posted on 12/22/2018 8:56:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
The terrible reality of how un-free our nation has become was painfully impressed upon me in dealing with the "omnipotent moral busybodies" of my city's public administration, whose charge it is to enforce the legal requirements for home remodeling projects. Although I pay the mortgage, cover the cost of upkeep, buy homeowner's insurance, and send in my annual property taxes, the little Caesars in the Planning, Building, and Public Works divisions made quite sure that I knew who actually owns my home and gets to dictate what can be done with it. In July 2017, my building planner submitted drawings of my proposed garage conversion project to the Planning Division in our city's beautiful, modern administrative office. The clerk charged him a submission fee of $240, which he immediately paid. He was told that the drawings would go to a planning review committee. Six weeks passed with no response from the Planning Division, so in September 2017, I asked him to go to the beautiful, modern administrative office building to find out what our intrepid public servants were doing with the drawings. On this second visit, a different clerk told him, "I'm sorry, the previous clerk charged you $240. The actual fee for plan submissions is $249, so your account is $9 short. That's why we didn't move forward with it." The Planning Division personnel – who are paid by my tax dollars to know the fees associated with plan submissions – misstated the initial fee, yet their department collected and cashed the check with the incorrect amount anyway. They did not call, text, email, fax, or send smoke signals to either my planner or me to inform us of the error;
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I will try calling the main office and if that doesn’t work I guess the next step is an attorney.
Thank you all for the advice. :-)
Are there some people you would like to see attired thus?
How would they be compelled to dress in that manner? Who would do the compelling? Who or what entity would employ the "compellers"?
Sometimes you need a hammer, as normal words etc just don’t do it.
Carl Drega.
I guess I should count myself lucky that I have never had a problem with the DMV before, I know I am the exception not the rule. LOL
Now to go buy a hammer!
I know someone living in Boulder, CO and it took him 2 years to get all of the surveys and permits to renovate his house.
Call your state senator. I did that with a similar type problem in Maryland.
In the 53yrs I’ve been driving, I’ve had a DMV problem either.
Don’t confuse local governance with the federal government. A world of difference. The people of the locality have direct power to change its government. The national government is too vast to change very easily at all.
In the 53yrs I’ve been driving, I’ve NEVER had a DMV problem either.
second american revolution coming, and it aint the ones the commies think
I have been driving for 52 years and the first ticket I ever received was 11-16-17 a few blocks from my house. Prior to that I had never been pulled over for any reason and now I am having trouble with the DMV. Coincidence? Nah, LOL!
Another sterling example of why conservatives need to get off their fat butts and take over local government, including the city council, the county board and the schoolboard. Oh yeh, elect yourselves a pro-2nd amendment, Constitutional sheriff. That gives you the legal and armed muscle to turn back any and all attacks by the federal fascist pigs.
(Let’s wait and see if some weenie, Mammon-worshiping, fake “conservative” shows up and complains that they’re too damn busy working to secure their family and community from leftist attacks.)
The writer must live in my county!
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