Posted on 07/24/2015 9:08:24 PM PDT by QT3.14
Solutions?
Beautifully stated.
The cars shown are on a paved parking surface intended for parking, it even looks like they can turn around as to leave the driveway headed out, and none are in the yard etc. Paying to park in your own driveway goes way beyond any logical keep our neighborhood clean campaign. I bet you no county official pays for their extra car be it an official car they have use of or a LEO cruiser parked at home.
That said as for myself I do not live there but have cousins and an uncle in Cobb County though. I live next state north in a rural area on 28 acres. If a county official drove up counting my cars parked there or for that matter anything other than genuine common sense business I would be at the next county commission meeting and I would be at my county mayors office ASAP. I've dealt with an out of control Zoning Office before just getting my building permit for a Double Wide approved.
My county Zoning Office had two signs in their office 24 years ago which read "What part of "NO" do you not understand?" and "If you just spent 20 minutes in here arguing then spend the next 20 seconds walking out." These type of offices can get way out of hand fast. One guy finally called their hand. He was building his own home himself. They demanded to know how many nails he was going to use. One newspaper story and a county commission meeting later new persons were in the Zoning Office.
I live in a rural area for the purpose of not hearing city noises and pretty much doing as I please with my land. That includes target practice, being able to crank up some music on old 100 watt speakers, letting my grass get high without mowing in the summer, and things like that without bothering neighbors. Actually I'm on a dead end road up in a hollow and I'm the quiet one up here. But my neighbors I've known all my life are like family. They are related too each other and yell house to house sometimes. That doesn't bother me. The only thing bothers me up here is mangy Yotes. Them I shoot on sight.
Let us start with causes rather than symptoms.
If we are going to double our population every lifetime we will simply imprison ourselves. We have got to understand that the strength of a nation and a nation's economic wealth and power will no longer come from numbers but from technology. Indeed, it is not just in how we regulate our front lawns that population growth dictates, it is in every aspect of our human endeavor.
We conservatives are facing a future in which we will be both prisoners and our own jailers unless we can deal with causes. So we must stop unrestricted immigration and we must contain population growth. As an ideal for those who love liberty, we should begin gradually to reduce the population of America but, of course, without government pressure. Today the government expands population through immigration to pad Democrat voter rolls and to provide cheap labor and a pool of consumers for business. Government must at least become neutral.
That means that our economy has to adjust away from a consumer base which is essentially a Ponzi scheme, we bring in more and more unproductive citizens who have just enough money, often from the government, to buy consumer goods, usually made in China. This scheme is the opposite of the Chinese model which is mercantilist. Our model cannot sustain itself for ever. Consider Social Security which seeks to perpetuate itself by introducing more and more takers and fewer fewer contributors.
So we must find a way of basing an economy on technology which is a technological problem and then we must find a way of distributing the wealth created by technology, such as robots, consistent with conservative values.
If we do not do it in a fashion consistent with conservative values, the left will do it for us through impositions of tyranny and in the process will dissipate all the vast wealth, all the human benefits, that technology might produce. If we are having difficulty regulating how we maintain our front lawns, imagine the difficulty of trying to distribute wealth created by machines. Yet if we do not do so, we will have a system which will create a very small , very limited and very elite class which owns and maintains robots and a very vast, uneducated, ignorant, dependent, and extremely poor class of consumers. If we do nothing the left will expropriate it all and we will have something between the oligarchs of Russia and the madness of Venezuela. We cannot permit the left to solve this problem.
The problem with our lawns is only a wake-up call.
The anonymous nit who reported the four cars also violated a code - not government, but neighborhood civility. He/she should have made an introduction at an opportune time, inquired about the four cars, and upon learning that it was due to a temporary visit, inform the neighbor of the code and politely requested that they likewise try to limit any minor violations of that in the future.
That approach would get my effective compliance along with communication if I was expecting any infrequent future visits resulting in temporary short-term violations. The approach the cowardly nit took would result in something like that “toilet bowl planter”.
What next? County permits for the exact number of persons occupying the home? Uncle Henry & Aunt Harriet is going to be spending the weekend someone better go by the Zoning Office. Some may say it's not the same thing oh yes indeed it is.
Corruption and abuses of power usually get their foothold by precedents being set at lower government levels as well most tyrants get their start as corrupt local officials and work up the political ladder into state and federal offices and positions bringing their ideals and abuses of powers with them. It's A Parking Tax. Permit my eye.
Today your parking. Tomorrow, next week, next year, likely soon this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3316404/posts Oh and is your home in energy compliance? No? That will be $500 for an out of “energy” compliance permit said in a Mr Haney voice for those who remember Green Acres.
Looks like If you revoke thier free lunch passes you may get thier attention
This is why I don’t live in a neighborhood. I live on a farm in the County. I have to use binoculars to even see my closest neighbor. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Actually, The reason the county created the law was to keep
immigrants from living with 28 people in one house NOT intended as a multifamily residence.
Some neighbor in this high end neighborhood is being an A hole and reporting it.
The city of Kennesaw in Cobb County passed the “homeowner gun law” not Cobb County as a whole.
1996 Resolution? Yes. I lived there and supported it. Frankly, Cobb County didn’t need the economic benefit of the much hyped Olympics.
Public transit rail? You mean MARTA. To be served by it each participating county had to implement a supporting 1% sales tax as tribute. Cobb County did not “refuse to let MARTA” go through its property. MARTA didn’t build anything because it didn’t get its money.
As an aside, years later, various MARTA bus lines did eventually reach out to encroach borders and even into Cobb County. They did this to increase ridership.
From my cold dead Goodyear’s!
Your reason is what I came up with also. I’ve seen illegals occupying a house in a subdivision. More cars than you could count, as many different people. Even RVs parked on the curb with extension cords to the house and the toilets hosed to the storm sewers. They destroy the value of a neighborhood quicker than anything else would.
Toilet bowl planters in the yard close to the road would get a lot of attention.
Which did you just finish reading: “1984”, “Brave New World,” or “Hunger Games”? Whatever it was, nice interpretation/application/near future prediction post.
Down here in South Texas you can actually pick out what vehicles are driven by Mexicans by who is parked on (or across) the sidewalk and the wrong direction on the street with about an 80% accuracy.
Go to Mexico and you will understand why they park that way.
Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws! That’s their motto.
However, when they park in front of my house on the sidewalk or facing the wrong direction, I call the cops and read them the Texas Transportation Code, Title 7, Vehicles and Traffic, subtitle C: Rules of the road.
If I don’t get any action. When I do I actually get action about 90% of the time.
To watch the breaking of law and to simply look the other way has become a way of life today...and look at the results.
Oviedo’s prolly have “family visiting “ from guatemala. They thoughtfully brought their cars with GA plates.
Happened in my first neighborhood. Got out just in time. Drive by it occasionally now, looks like crap. Many of the hispanics are gone, leaving their zero-down, interest-only house when the construction industry crashed. They didn’t even lose the security deposit.
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