Posted on 05/17/2007 11:19:28 PM PDT by anymouse
Every petty government bureaucrat’s a Commissar in our Brave New World.
Zoning has been around for a long time. Our county zones minimum acreage for subdivisions (any split) for a variety of reasons - to preserve prime ag land, deer wintering range, ensure adequate distancing for septic systems/wells, keep building out of flood zones, etc. You can’t just split off what you want and sell it or give it away.
The article doesn’t say how Wynn “gave” his son the acre. You can’t just “give” somebody land and then they own it. The principle of private land ownership wouldn’t be worth much without the system of requiring land transfers and divisions to be properly surveyed and recorded. If you say somebody’s trespassing on your land, you obviously can’t expect any help from law enforcement if there’s no legal record of your ownership, and no clear survery showing exactly where your land begins and ends. My father had a problem that went on for years, re an easement on a country property. The guy that bought the neighboring land claimed his property line went a few yards further than it actually did, and claimed he had the right to stop my father from using that strip, which just happened to be the only road access to the cabin on my dad’s property. The only way it ever got sorted out was because all land transfers are required to be recorded at the county courthouse and all land divisions require a survey.
Welcome to the United Soviet Socialist States of America, Bud.
Vote Democrat?
This is a tough one. But!
But haveing seen people building houses for there mother on unbuildable lots when I was in CA. (like land on the side of 80% slope) But it always seemed for some reason a For sale sign would appear as the house was finished.
For some reason there mothers could never move in.
Comrade, let's have a talk. I'll go make some borscht.
Yes, this is how it's done everywhere, I thought. Say the guy gives the land to his son. Then the son wants to sell it. How does he prove the size of the lot and ownership unless there is an official record and a survey? Would you buy land from a guy who says, "Sure I own it. It goes from that rock to that tree to that 2x4 to that old tire."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
More Texas weirdness. Texas is seriously going down the tubes. Don’t believe me? You must not be on FREEPERS enough...
Zoning has been around for a long time.
Many cities do quite well without zoning.
It’s all about an out-of-control government trying to implement communism in every way that it can - seize private property.
If a “developer” buys the land a few dollars will change hands under the table and a subdivision will be created. That’s most likely what has upset city officials most. They didn’t get their usual payoff.
I’m sure HARXIST—her hideous heinous—Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli . . . de Sade would be glad to help out.
SSTTM
(Super Sarcasm To The Max)
>> Zoning has been around for a long time... You cant just split off what you want and sell it or give it away
Well, the last part of what you say is certainly true!
And xoning has been around a long time. It used to be local folks getting together and forming realistic regs to protect each other.
Now it’s self-important all-wise elite bureaucratic rubes going off to college to learn “city planning”. There is one thing and ONLY one thing in mind when they restrict development...
HOW TO MAXIMIZE TAX BASE. PERIOD. SCREW THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE RESIDENTS!!!!
Most don’t.
Well, the city didn't get their cut......and we all know they gotta have their "share" even if no money changed hands......
The old man should have just made the kid co-owner of the twelve acres. Then the kid could have built his house anyway with no problem.
quaint ain't it.
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