Posted on 07/13/2019 8:25:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right
It’s common for communities to use zoning codes to exclude commercial and industrial uses from residential areas, but Sacramento County, California, seems extra-zealous about making sure that residents don’t try to operate auto repair businesses amid homes. While it concedes to residents the right to perform minor auto repairs on their own cars in their driveway or garage, it bans repairs or maintenance in any of the following circumstances...
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Does that mean its ok to work on your own car in your neighbors garage?
It is intended to prevent under the radar shops and chop shops.
But it is possible to get around some of it for personal cars or even relatives cars.
If you arent running an illegal shop, you probably are not working on cars all the time. If you have it in an enclosed garage for serious repairs, no one is going to know. If you have it in an enclosed garage, no one will know if its your car or a relatives car.
Xounties and cities have always had nuisance and hygiene laws for all different zoned types of properties.
I changed out the headlights in my 2007 Passat last year. In my carport. The job took about five hours. I saved about $700.
A few years back an Hispanic family moved to my block.
The guy was clearly running an illegal shop. I don't believe it was a chop shop; just an illegal garage on a residential street. Small flatbed trucks would pull-up car parts. Black oil stains running down his driveway.
It was out of control.
Although I hated to do it, I called my city councilmans' office and told him about it.
The next day 3 cop cars showed up and took him away.
I didn't see him for two weeks but when I did, he put up a high wooden fence in the driveway.
He's still running the shop and his driveway looks like an oil spill but things have quieted down.
Just added this to the reasons my lady and I are selling our four Sacramento properties and getting the hell out of HELL in just slightly over six weeks and moving to St. George, Utah.
Thank God the purchase of our new house in St. George is not dependent on the sale of any of our properties. . . We are closing on July 31st. . . and will just wait for the others to sell, hoping the crazies in the legislature don’t do anything more to depress property values before that occurs.
But we are getting the dodge out of hell. . .
You both make very good points regarding chop shops, etc. But this law is so broad that it is evidently illegal to change a friend’s air filter while his car is sitting in your own driveway.
And as we all know, the government just loves mission creep when it comes to laws and law enforcement.
There has got to be a better way here.
Liberal’s favorite thing is turn normal law-abiding citizens into criminals with the stroke of a pen.
Illegal aliens though, no problem.
No, your example would not be illegal. Only if its in the driveway for more than 24 hours. An air filter change won’t take someone 24 hours. You can work on a vehicle outside, it just can’t be left there for more than 24 hours. Its to prevent driveways from filling up with broken down cars - aka the chronic ‘dead rusting car on the front lawn’.
>>“Noone does thst anymore, unless its and car”
You’ve claimed the most ignorant arsehole award<<
I would like to support Brilliant in his/her statement. Other than a handful of parts, it is almost impossible for a shadetree mechanic to work on modern cars. Even things like brakes are so electronics-laden that the average person cannot do it.
I would venture to guess that the intersection of the number of people who OWN cars able to be worked on and the number of cars like that still onh the road is a sliver of what it used to be say in the 70s or 80s.
Not “no one” but a small and diminishing number.
BTW: I used to be one of those shade tree mechanics. Never in a million years would I try to replace even the fuel injector or redo the brakes on my 1990 vehicle, much less my 2015 one.
IMHO.
This is totally different. This is the business you bought and own something from telling you you cannot fix your property yourself.
My example would be illegal. Remember, you can only work on a car belonging to someone who lives on your property.
So if your friend stops by and you replace his air filter, that’s an infraction.
Most cities have ordinances like this. I’m glad ours does. 2 years ago my neighbor sold her house. Sold in 3 days. When the new people moved in we found out why. The house has 2 huge driveways. One in front of the house where the garage was turned into a game room and one in back of the house where the new garage was added. It’s on a corner. One week after the new people moved in both driveways were full of Prius in various states of repair. There was 10-12 of them. One was wrecked and on a trailer. I told the man....you can’t run a fricking repair shop out of your driveways. Either get rid of them or I’m turning you in. I was embarrassed when people came to my home. Anyway, a week later they were still there so I turned him into our cities code enforcement. They came out and told him he had to get rid of them by X date. He didn’t. When they came back I was out front and talked to the enforcement guy. Told him the story the guy had told him was a lie. He said yeah, this is gonna cost him. They fined him so much per car and a week later they were all gone. I appreciated code enforcement.
A very important part of the DOI. Many people forget this — it is part our REAL American culture. It may come to this if the RINOs do not start doing the job they were sent to Washington to do....
(1) sounds iffy and subjective and unconstitutionally broad and vague. It probably wouldn’t survive a serious court challenge.
(2) sounds like it might be overly broad, as these garage fix jobs aren’t hurting anybody but busybodies
(3) some point to this, it averts redneck eye pollution in hoity toity neighborhoods, but again what is your population like in the first place, are you serving its needs right?
It’s a sad symptom of neighbors no long willing to be nice to one another just for the sake of being nice.
But Germans who nicely offered to clean their Italian neighbors’ yard might be accepted.
And I heard in Kansas it is illegal to repair your own tractor. That is messed up. If true.
I hate to see government-creep and over-reach.
This is exactly why we have these problems. A few jerks have no regard for others and they ruin it for everyone.
A solution would be you can only work on a car registered to a member of the household in your own garage.
If your buddy needs help, take your tools to his car in his driveway.
Or just move his car into your garage, close the door, and don't draw attention (don't blast music) to what you're doing and the chances of a neighbor complaining and calling the cops will diminish greatly.
As I said, this is an example of a few obnoxious, inconsiderate idiots ruining it for everyone.
There should be a reasonable middle-ground.
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