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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Like the guy whose classics were nearly destroyed in the last earthquake?
Ah, yeah, not living there.
Still, an air filter wouldn’t take that long and that’s something that could be done either real quick and go, or gets done over the course of a normal visit to your house.
Now if its a big repair they could put it in the garage and then how is anyone to know its not his car in there? Yeah if he has a history of running an illegal shop, sure. If he’s joe nobody doing a onetime favor for a friend, and they are discreet about it, doubtful anyone would know.
Its also a symptom of neighbors not giving a crap about other neighbors and running shops out of their residential homes, probably all hours of the day and night, with a lot of vehicles on their property that don’t belong to anyone in the property.
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An important part of any real farm is the equipment maintenance shop.
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It would be interesting to see how a Sacramento cop would respond to this situation:
You’ve got the hood of your friend’s car up. And you are replacing his air filter. In your own driveway. That’s illegal in Sacramento.
And a cop happens to drive by at that moment. For some reason, he knows that car isn’t yours. And he knows you’re a good guy, and not running a chop shop. Would the cop keep going, or would he stop and give you a ticket?
Well, there is a city near me that has an ordnance against idling your car in your own driveway. Some guy did that (he had to pop back into his house for just a second to get something). A cop stopped and gave him a ticket.
So yeah, I think that air filter would get you a ticket.
Is “under a shade tree” permitted?
Are shade trees allowed in California?
Brakes are magnitude easier to change now than when they had drum brakes.
Actually, except for breaches to the hydraulic system, brakes are a 10 minute no-sweat operation requiring little more than a 14 mm wrench and a C-clamp.
Yes, but you can’t use dental instruments to do so.
Laws often are written very broadly to make it easy on the cops and others...and then they are ABUSED, as we’re discussing here regarding a person who might want to change struts on his own car, in his own garage.
For example, it’s also Illegal to be in “operational control” (legal term) of a motor vehicle on your own property if you’re drunk, with Operational Control meaning that you have the keys in hand and are near or in the vehicle.
Now that doesn’t mean driving, or even repositioning your own car, on your own property, it means being in Operational Control...that’s it.
So, if you’re drunk, and you have the keys in your hands (or on your person), and even if the car doesn’t run, you can get a DUI. And don’t laugh, a neighbor called the cops on a drunk person who was having a BBQ and using the car as a stereo system, with the car, on blocks, with the wheels off. He was in Operational Control and he got a DUI.
I don’t know how it ultimately wound up, hopefully a judge threw it out with prejudice, but who knows.
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Yep!!!!
Idiotic Nanny State horseshit.
I think they are also trying to keep people from not completing the work and leaving the car on blocks. Could we argue this law discriminates against certain groups of people?
It really is not that outrageous of an ordinance- it is a fairly common way of keeping the character of a SFR neighborhood. People can still work on their own cars in an enclosed garage using tools readily available to the homeowner.
No doubt someone or several someones was operating a shade-tree mechanic business and this was the response.
“No one does that anymore anyway. Unless it’s an old car.”
Speak for yourself. I have newer cars and can still count the times they’ve been taken in. Sometimes I need tools or scanners, but virtually any job a garage can do, a home mechanic can still do. If anything, it’s EASIER now, with the Internet enabling me to get the parts (cheap) and the special tools needed, not to mention videos (although I still consider that to be cheating).
The really hard work, such as rebuilding an anti-lock brake actuator, gets sent out anyway - all the shop does is a simple R&R, with bleeding.
Your first paragraph is indicative of the bureaucratic tyrant mindset. It will come to pass probably.
> So, if you’re drunk, and you have the keys in your hands (or on your person), and even if the car doesn’t run, you can get a DUI. <
Oh, yes. That happened to a cousin of mine. He got into a fight with his wife, and went out to sit in an old clunker he had in his driveway. Well, there he was, enjoying a few beers and listening to the radio. Engine off. Radio on. Then a cop stopped by.
Off to jail my cousin went.
Side note: The police are not too fond of my cousin. I suspect that they were just waiting for something like this to happen.
Lol, the overreach is getting out of hand for sure... This one is telling folks what they can and cannot own inside their private castle. It encroached from the public street, to your private driveway, to inside your constitutional domain. And like I say what’s next? Your kitchen? pots and pans over a certain capacity limit? Over a weeks worth of groceries in your cupboards and frig?
Anyone who would allow this concept is an absolute fool. Are they going to pay the taxes on that portion of your property also then? Since it was taken by eminent domain without compensation? Everyone should tell the state to bill the local municipality for those portions of their parcel that are no longer their own and taken by local decree. This stuff would stop.
“Side note: The police are not too fond of my cousin. I suspect that they were just waiting for something like this to happen.”
Yep, and probably similar to the case that I mentioned ...some history behind things.
I guess there aren’t too many
hot rodders in Sacramento County.
The only thing your allowed to
teach your teenage son is how
to change the oil.
My history of working on drum brakes is not a good one.
Disc brakes please.
My 65 jeep has 4 wheel drum. Probably two wheel cylinders leak. I’ve never had the drums off it in the the 6 years of ownership. It’s had maybe 150 miles put on it. A lot of fixing up in stages, other things going on in life, etc.
There is a conversion kit out there for all disc brakes. Just buying the hardware doesn’t really make sense to me economically. I will only spend so much.
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