Posted on 07/17/2021 5:41:33 AM PDT by george76
The tyranny of government continues to spread, even to small towns.
“So you are OK with your neighbors having cars up on blocks, weeds and dead grass everywhere and old refrigerators on their front lawn?”
Where do you live? I’ve never lived in a place where that was common. Seen it for short periods of time but I’ve never had problems with neighbors doing it long term.
I do have a car on jack stands in my driveway right now. My son is supposed to replace the engine in it next week. Waiting for parts. From the street, it looks like it is just parked there. You’d have to get close to see the tires are a couple of inches off the ground. What is the problem with that? First time we’ve NEEDED to do that in over 10 years.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
We have no HOA thanks to my wife and a few other good people in our neighborhood. They drove out the Nazi/Commies. Got elected to the HOA and passed nullification of their power. The jerks who had made the HOA their fiefdom moved out and our property values are at a record high. The rules are still the rules but the HOA can not enforce them. Homeowners can at their own damned legal expense and the Nazi/Commies dont have the fees of good people to do misdeeds anymore.
Just WOW.
Makes me proud to not live in a "neighborhood". On my rural property, I can have my compost bin, my burn barrell, my tractor parked on the grass and a big old garden in the front yard.
if you follow the comments you will see the underlying point was cities have a duty to enact and enforce reasonable laws and fines to ensure a tidy appearance.
This case is way beyond that and that is not the point of thus discussion. The poster I was supporting just said the fines should be reduced to reasonable.
.......lol, NO, I’m far from a commie.
Leave your keyboard and go move your car out of your yard.
Amen!
EXACTLY!
You nailed it!
Frankly if you’ve chosen to live in town then you abide by the cities codes....better to buy elsewhere and be free to do what you want in your own yard.
I live in town, but it’s not a town run by freedom-hating, priss-spigot control freaks. Anyone who doesn’t like the way my house looks is welcome to either make me an agreeable offer on it or grow up and find something else to look at.
The point went past you.
No, I think Mr Rogers got the point, there are “property Karens” on FR.
I might suggest that the towns bulldoze such homes to teach a lesson./S
What? You make it sound like without lawn nazis, everyone is a slob.
She had two wheels on the grass, and upon notification, corrected the matter. She then called for the inspection per the ordinance, but the inspector never showed. Meanwhile, the $250. per day cost of the 1 violation continued until after a year, the city determined it was 100K. She had another violation written for a crack in her driveway. The article was well written and easy to read.
-- ... the decent and the indecent
-- ... those who demonize people who disagree with them and those who don't
-- ... the extraordinary and the ordinary
-- ... those who divide people into two groups and everyone else.
Perhaps Dave Berry covered it all:
"There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them."
Today we see clearly what must be added to the lengthy list is this:
"There are two kinds of people in this world, those who must control other people and those who just want to be left alone."
It is painfully obvious that petty tyrants and would-be petty tyrants are everywhere and at every level of assumed power and authority.
It’s surreal that the town still refuses to admit that what it’s doing to me is abusive and unfair,”
There is a WHO involved here…
I cannot understand how anyone would live in a home that is controlled by an HOA your post is example 999 of 1000 reasons why. No HOA is first on the list whenever I decided to buy a house.
I hope you can organize your neighbors and dilute at least if not totally remove the HOA covenants. Positions of power in HOA’s generate multitudes of pencil penis prick heads and good ole fashioned Karen’s to inflict their mindless insecurities upon the neighborhood.
If you live in a place where you can reach out your window and borrow something from your neighbor reaching out their window, you should probably keep everything nice and tidy—no cars on the lawn; and, heaven forbid, no cracks in the driveway. Your sanity is probably in enough danger already. Bless your little heart.
For those of us who live otherwise, with perhaps an occasional coyote or bear straying onto the property, which may have, heaven forbid (again), an actual garden on the site where real food grows that has never seen a grocery store...well, we are a little more laid back.
Y’all come back now.
She should pave her lawn
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