Connecticut ping!
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Posted on 01/18/2007 4:58:26 AM PST by Puppage
You are lucky. When I bought my house I was told they were never going to build in the woods behind me. It had wetlands . We thought it would be great for the boys to have dirt bikes etc. A year later we got the shock of our lives when the bull dozers started knocking all the trees down. Seems they went in through the back part of the woods where it was swampland and filled it in. How the neighborhood asked could this be? We went to the Mayor who just told us that the land had been rezoned. We had a joint lawyer who told us to just let it go. We then knew someone got bribed. The trees were gone and mini mansions went up. It made my house go up in value but I would rather have the woods. I can't wait to get out of here. Last week the same mayor was federally indicted for taking a $5000 bribe. He has been mayor 15 years. Half of the town is so upset and defending this creep. I say if he took $5000 thats just a drop in the bucket. I bet when they really look into him they will find much more. Or the crook made a plea deal. I hope he goes to jail but I doubt he will.
Connecticut ping!
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Three miles down the road is John Gibson's place. If ya got to have neighbors, he's a good one.
Thats a good distance. I would like that. Then I could build treehouses and ride dirt bikes and have some horses and pigs. I plan to have plenty of them in just in case some fool buys the land up next to me and wants to put a mosque up. I don't want to be able to see the road from my house or my neighbors lights.
Who the devil lives in a place called Stonington?
Really?
How was it "in your face"? Did he not want the garage and built it accordingly? Has he no right to his garage that complied with the zoning laws?
Should he complain about your home which is on the lot next to his property?
Connecticut, in the south east near the shore, next to Rhode Island
So let me ask you, you don't mind if your neighbor does whatever they want on their property? Maybe he wants to raise pigs or start a custom cycle shop next to you? The thing is, you move into an area and agree to those zoning laws unless there are enough people that want them to change.
No problem.
The abuse of these agencies does not negate the need for them unfortunately. There are as many problems arising from lack of regulation as from the petty tyrants' overregulation. Other threads have FReepers on them complaining about the BS their neighbors get away with because the authorities do not act.
Now if there were some way of detecting the predisposition to petty tyranny prior to appointment much grief could be avoided.
Some places, like Chicago, regulate almost everything but almost everything can be avoided by those who have "clout" with the local RAT machine.
In this case I wonder what the backstory is i.e. who did this family p.o. that is retaliating?
No I don't accept that. Living in an urban area should mean that one surrenders any rights. I don't accept at all that my only choices are to live with government encroachments in a civilized area with all that a big city has to offer, or die of boredom in the boonies.
No slam to anyone who actually likes rural living, but I did it for 10 years, and I best describe it as just losing 10 years of my life. If I had to choose between going back to the sticks or cutting my wrists, I'd buy razor blades.
You need a reality check. The original article is about a homeowner building a playhouse for his daughter that exceeded lot limits in town ordinances. You could piss your time away at town meetings and selectman meetings to get the ordinance changed. I doubt you would succeed. You could arm yourself and shoot any government official that came to enforce the ordinance. But, the cops will send in a swat team to take care of that problem.
So, you claim ordinances violate your freedom. Well, they limit your freedom. But, you could move to a broken neighborhood in the inner city where rights have reverted to the law of the jungle. There government doesn't care about girl's playhouses. They have their hands full moving around the neighborhoods without getting shot.
On the other hand you could move to the country, stock up on beer, get a nice wide-screen TV, and enjoy the peace and quite. Sure, it gets boring, but you have to decide what you can live with. If you are loaded with money, you can buy yourself a solution that is beyond the reach of most.
You inadvertantly hit upon one of the great ironies in life, and one of the many reasons I found rural life to be a living hell. Despite all of that nature surrounding them, rural dwellers tend (not all) to be major couch potatoes who lead very inactive lives. Those I met who did admire the outdoors rarely did anything more aerobic than sitting in a boat or a deer stand.
One does not own land. One may purchase the right to use a piece of land in certain prescribed ways(subject to change) and must continue to pay rent on the land to the true owner, the political entity in whose jurisdiction the piece of land lies. That political entity can reclaim that land from the tenant at any time and will generally give him some arbitrary portion of the value of the land as a repayment of one'sinitial investment.
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