Another blow to personal property rights...

Regards,

Is there any way to focus on the bureaucrat who first proposed this to the city council?

He/she needs to be in another line of work.

Straight out of Soviet Central Planning. These activists are very aggressive and are nationally organized. The same "visitability" statute was proposed in Tucson just weeks ago. Locals have managed to get it tabled indefinitely, or so the local counsel spokesman tells me. I figure they're the same commie gang as the gay-lesbian totalitarians who have fanned out over the country to demand "acceptance" when what they really want is total power to militate for their utopian or libertine visions.

They should equip them all with life preservers as well for when they sink into the ocean from the weight of their oppression.

What about all the home buyers that'll be priced out of a home? Liberals claim to be for the little guy, but they constantly come up with crap like this that just ends up hurting the people they claim to champion.

I worked as a case manager for nearly 20 years, and this is NOT what the majority of disabled individuals want-they just want to be able to put these accommodations in their OWN homes at a reasonable cost. Glad I don't live there-my money, my home, my choice.

The name of said beaureucrat is Alan Toy, a Santa Monica resident who is an appointee to the Independent Living Council and an elected member of the city's Rent Control Board.

As I am a New Yorker who only ran into this little bit of fascism searching for other abuses, that's all I can tell you about Mr. Toy. Perhaps one of our LA-based Freeper friends can get further info.

Regards, Regards,

You said it, Texan...your home, your choice. I agree with you when you say that most of the disabled would be appalled at this. I certainly do hope they speak up.

Regards,

Oh great!

So now homeowners will have the experience that many business owners have had. Lawyers pushing someone in a wheelchair up to your door and demanding to see your handicapped access.

What, no ramp to the porch? No elevator to the second floor? No rails around your toilet?

See you in court!

In my city, a couple of years ago this is exactly what happened. It cost the company I work for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The same attorney filed dozens of lawsuits on behalf of the same wheelchair bound, elderly individual based on alleged ADA violations.

So all together now:

"But this is different"

"It can't happen here"

Don't get me wrong, I am not, in any way, disparaging the handicapped. But I feel that if a private business, on performing a cost-benefit anlysis, decides to invest or not to invest in accomodations for the handicapped, it is their decision. Handicapped customers can vote with their checkbooks. As for homeowners - Well really; does anyone feel that the government should dictate to you that you MUST accomodate the handicapped in your own home! This is just TOO MUCH.

Just watch. If we're not careful, first Santa Monica, then California, then.....

Relax, get a cup of coffee, chill. OK, I feel better now.

This requirement will handicap the homeowner -- costing him an an arm and a leg -- Hmmmmm --

Housing: Santa Monica considers requiring new homes and those getting major remodeling to build in features for the handicapped.

Not good enough.

I want the following requirements, or I am SUING SANTA MONICA:

• Balloons on every floor, in case I fall. The balloons shall be filled with Nitrous Oxide, which will release in the event I should in fact fall, and which will provide me a painkilling effect.
• All knives in every home must be confisicated, in the event that an airplane flies within 200 nautical miles of the home.
• All hard surfaces are to be covered with Nerf, in the event I should come into contact with the surface too quickly.
• All homes must be equipped with a Halon firefighting system and a smoke detection system that will activate if second-hand cigarette smoke is detected.
• No cabinet or closet doors shall be permitted to be openable, in case dangerous chemicals or objects might be kept inside the cabinet or closet.

"California" is the punchline other states say when they want the biggest laughs.

For heaven's sake, Laz...don't give them any ideas!

Regards,

Please don't give them any more ideas. LOL!

For heaven's sake, Laz...don't give them any ideas!

I know, but their efforts are JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

If it saves ONE LIFE, it's worth it.

Do it for the children.

You don't hate children, do you?

I agree with you when you say that most of the disabled would be appalled at this. I certainly do hope they speak up

No problem. It's ridiclous as ridiclous as the Americans With Disabilities Act itself. 99% of the ADA needs to be tossed. The only places the ADA accessability laws should apply is in government facilities built with taxpayer money. Before being flamed as cruel I and my wife both are disabled. My wife to the point of being wheel chair dependent for 16 years. She agrees the ADA is ridicluos as well. We did our own modifications as these type modifications are only suitable on individual basis. What works for one is a hinderance to another.

More BS to brighten your day.

Great, this whole concept is probably because one disabled person couldn't find a reasonably priced used home with these features.

Here's a thought, lets make it so that you are not allowed to sell you house for more than you owe on it. That way everyone will be able to afford a used house......

Lets see, in MD you can't smoke in your home, in Santa Monica you now HAVE TO have facilities for the disabled, all at your own expense of course. Is there any aspect of our lives liberals don't want to control?

BTW what ever happened to thet "Right to privacy" guarenteed us by Roe v Wade? I guess that only gives us the privacy to commit murder. Liberal loonacy at its finest.