Posted on 09/13/2010 7:11:27 AM PDT by rawhide
DeKalb County is suing a man for growing too many vegetables on his own land, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Steve Miller of Clarkston said he plans to fight the county and has gotten his 2-acre property rezoned so that he can have his garden. But he still faces nearly $5,000 in fines, Miller told Channel 2.
Miller has been growing a variety of vegetables for 15 years, and his neighbors support him. He sells what he grows at local markets and gives some away, he said.
"It's a way of life, like it's something in my blood,” Miller told Channel 2.
The county says Miller grows more crops on his land than allowed under zoning regulations. Code enforcement officers began ticketing him in January for the zoning violation and for allegedly having unpermitted employees on the property.
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I think I know what he can do with his extra tomatoes.
he should let me help, he wouldn’t have a problem after I killed all the plants.
Looks like more underworked government that should be defunded.
For those who say the Imam has a constitutional right to build a mosque at Ground Zero - note that the government sticks its nose into every facet of our lives and regulates what it wants to. There is a constitutional right to build a mosque anywhere at all but no constitutional right to grow vegetables on one’s own land? Get serious!
Shouldn’t the government be MUCH more intimately involved in our daily lives? I want them to install a camera in my bathroom with a scale on which I can put my feces, so that only the daily permitted quanity of scat is eliminated from my body. HEAVY FINES FOR ANYONE WHO POOS OVER THEIR DAILY LIMIT!!!!
Years ago I worked with a Chinese woman who tended to laugh at inappropriate times (I’m told this is very Chinese).
At one point (for some reason) I mentioned pumpkins, which I consider a very New England type of vegetable and I said that she may not have eaten one — “Oh no!” she said, “In China we grew many pumpkins! My district in China was famous for pumpkins! My grandfather grew more pumpkins than anyone else in our village!”
Then she started giggling and added “That’s why they killed him.”
Government doesn’t like independent people
Good point.
I remember when private property mattered.
This guano has to stop.
“Death to the Kulaks.”
Just grow Halal vegetables.
Zoning is evil, packaged as being good.
"Government is not eloquence. Government is not reason. Government is force." George Washington.
Root the dems and moonbats out of your LOCAL governments. Everyone can work to this goal we will clean up our area politics. Too many dems go unchallenged on ballots everywhere
It is a shame that his neighbors feel compelled to make some case for the virtues of growing more vegetables. I don't care if he burns his harvest every year (or if he throws korans on the fire). It is his property. The government can pound sand.
Yeh — what the heck is the government that We the People HIRE and PAY for doing controlling how many tomatoes this man grows? Is that what we hired them for? I think we need to fire many of our employees post haste.
I've seen cases where someone raised livestock for years. No problem. Then, development springs up close by, new homeowners move in, and they start complaining that animals smell. Next thing you know, livestock is banned by the zoning board. It's just not right.
Well then just confiscate his land under Kelo, raze it and put up a strip mall complete with a Quiki-Mart and tanning salon with enough asphalt to accommodate 10x traffic flow, all in the name of the "public interest".
Ain't that the truth. I would add that too many RINOs don't get primarried (is that a word?).
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