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garden police gone wild?
"Ann" wrote in message ... "Vox Humana" expounded: I wouldn't want to look at a chain link fence so I would be the one reporting the violation if I were the neighbor. I find it interesting that your take on this is that the woman who reported the violation is a "bitch" but your mother who broke the law is a victim. I find it interesting that because you don't want to see something you think it's all right to keep someone else from doing something to their property. I have said many times I wouldn't live in such an area. I don't need neighbors controlling what I do to my land. When they pay my taxes they can have their say. Let's back up a minute. I'm not the one who is prohibiting someone from having a fence. In the case cited, it is a city ordinance that prohibits the fence. The person who reports it, for what ever reason, is not the one who determines whether the fence can stay of if it must go. Before I bought my house I went to the county auditor's office and got a copy of the deed restrictions. I bought the house with the understanding that there would be architectural standards that included the prohibition of metal fences. If someone moved in and put up a metal fence I wouldn't have any moral dilemma about reporting the violation. I can't believe that people will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a house and not even bother to inquire what restrictions might apply to that property. I could have taken my chances and bought into a neighborhood where there were no restrictions. Areas like that are plentifully. There is an older neighborhood across a ravine from me with no restrictions. The houses are surrounded by chain link fences, cars are parked on the lawns, every lot as at least one boat or camper, one home owner decided that it would be more convenient to throw his old storm door over the hill rather than put it out for the trash collector. The real victim are the homeowners themselves because the property values are suppressed when people let their neighborhood turn into a trash pit. I also think that it is preposterous that one would assume that just because they bought something and pay taxes that they have an entitlement to do what they want. That would be like saying "I paid $40K for my car and pay license fees (taxes) so I should be able to use it exactly as I want. To hell with traffic laws." |
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