City condemns man's purple house

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2003

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Moonman62]

But, your property values aren't guaranteed by the Constitution.

No they aren't, but the Constitution doesn't prevent local governments from establishing codes for housing that without out a doubt increase the market values of the homes there.

If the government can tell you what color to paint your house, then is it your house? Can your possessions be secure if the government dictates to the Nth degree what you can and cannot do with them, backed with the might of arms, and in their opinion, "legal" justification for using them should you not comply?

Does a city have the right to require building permits and to require a private home be built to certain standards? Does it make it any less your house?

[Moonman62]

I've already been called a communist. Haven't you been paying attention? You have no idea where one right ends and another begins. What part of Florida are you from? I'm in South Florida, and more and more localities are establishing colors for homes.

[Moonman62]

You got it backwards...If the neighbors don't like what they see, they can build a fence to block the view...Whose liberty is really being squashed here??? Or doesn't that count anymore???

What about the view from the street?

[Rebelbase]

We have a guy in my town who painted his house purple pokadots and lined is front yard with toilet bowels as a protest against the city council.

Everytime I go by there I hope to see that one of his neighbor's would have taken a slegehammer to the toilets, but its not happened.

Maybe one will sue him for causing the property values to drop.

[Rebelbase]

bowls.

[Moonman62]

Following the council's fascist logic, I can build a $10 million spread on my property. I look down my snooty nose at the peon's $100,000 hovels across the street. By golly, those shacks are affecting the market value of my 27 bedroom vacation lodge. These ramshackle lodgings are a blight. They must be upgraded or razed.

I doubt it, because the council is elected. People in those 100,000 dollar homes make up most of the electorate, whereas people who paint their homes a color that they know will irritate their neighbors and bring down property values are few and far between.

[WilsonTheDog]

That is, of course, a completely ridiculous statement and has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. Not to mention the fact that I experienced more instances of racism on a daily basis in my 29 years living in NJ than I do here in SC.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's a map for reference.

When I first moved there in the 1973, I lived in a place just below the red star on the map (around NW27th Ct). I later moved into the International Village within Inverrary itself, and then ultimately back out and south on 56th Ave. Inverrary was only 1/4 developed at the time. NW44th, the road to Piper High School was paved only to University Drive, and was a mud road within Inverrary. The town of Sunrise was still expanding into the Everglades, and most development ended at Pine Island Road to the west. To the east of Lauderhill was Lauderdale Lakes, to the north was Tamarac and Margate, to the south was Plantation, and to the west was Sunrise.

Lauderhill was the "runt" of the townships in the area, probably because of lack of freeway access. Tamarac was a retirement town (mostly The Mainlands sections). They have a Turnpike exit, as does Plantation on Sunrise Blvd. I-95 is too far east. Sunrise became the richest town in the area, due to their mayor exanding into the Everglades. The main roads in the area were Commercial Blvd (Tamarac), Oakland Park Blvd (Lauderhill), Sunrise Blvd (Plantation), University Drive (Sunrise), and Hwy 441 (Lauderdale Lakes).

-PJ

[Liberal Classic]

If you can't paint your own home purple and gold you don't really own the damn thing.

[Willie Green]

repaint his house an acceptable "muted" color after he had it painted purple and gold in a show of pride for his college fraternity.

Hmmmmm.... interesting.

I never found that color-combo very appealing...
but my old high-school sweetheart used to claim that it gave her headaches and made her nauseous.
(Actually, it was purple/yellow that she didn't like, but gold is close enough.)
Whereever we went together, she'd animatedly comment about whoever's poor aesthetic judgement if she spotted that color-combo. Needless to say, I quickly took the hint and learned to avoid it myself whenever we were together. That tactic worked for me quite nicely! ;^)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Prince moved?

[California74]

You know I really hate mustard gold colored homes. And forest green ones too. And Pink. Or any color of red. Blue, too. Just offensive colors, you know.

So who's going to decide what's offensive? The government, eh?

It will end up - here's your choice, white or tan. There ya go. Just like the soviet union.

[steve-b]

The report says a consultant will help the city create a color palette with hundreds of shades from which homeowners can choose. Commissioners are scheduled to vote on the palette in January.

"OK, we've chosen two dozen from the paint company owned by Councilman Grifter's brother-in-law, thirty from the paint company owned by Councilman Lightfinger's lodge brother,... I'll vote for the basketball court in Councilman Backscratch's precinct if he'll vote to add ten colors from the paint company owned by my nephew...".

[steve-b]

There are still places in America where you can paint your house purple and green

But you'd better not do that in the Drazi Freehold.

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

why do these people insist on making themselves a laughing stock? Damn fools..........

[lonerepubinmass]

I live in a so called Historic District. When a woman down the street got into a pissing contest with the Historical Society about something she wanted to do, they slapped a cease and desist order on her building permit.
That night she and her friends painted the front porch,railings,steps ect. fluorescent colors and claimed that it was primer and all she was doing was protecting the integrity of the wood until the could work out a solution.
The members of the Society quickly got of their high horses and allowed her to do what she wanted. LOVED IT !!!

[ctdonath2]

The biggest porn shop in Rochester NY was painted lime green just to annoy the zoning board trying to shut it down.

[AAABEST]

I'm in the Naples area, if you would like to continue this conversation over lunch or a cup of coffee, I'm always looking to meet new FReepers. I have a ton of them as friends already.

I'm in South Florida, and more and more localities are establishing colors for homes.

That doesn't make it right or American. You people who support this crap amaze me. You really do think that as a supposedly free country we should be legally forcing people to paint their houses according to the "authorized" color chart down at city hall.....don't you?

You seem nice person, but you're nice person who holds liberty in contempt. You hate freedom and don't even realize it, I'm not kidding either.

[Moonman62]

How much freedom do people have in a declining neighborhood, where property values are going down, the people who care about it are giving up, and the criminals are taking over?