zogger
Tree Freak
zogger, that's ridiculous. The county can't enact an ordinance discriminating against short brown-eyed people any more than we can discriminate against Blacks or Jews... there's something called the Fourteenth Amendment ya' know? I ain't talkin' about my rights trumping anything... heck, I ain't even talkin' about my rights. The simple fact is that New York cop wanted to take his parcel of rural Iowa land and turn it into a residential area... it ain't zoned for residential!!! He can't do that unless the county allows an exception!!! We, the people of the county, allow for exceptions to zoning "rule" or "law" all the time (for example the farmer selling his nephew the less than 10 acre lot I talked about)... we're fair minded people. The simple fact is that New York cop couldn't "develop" his land into suburbia because the land ain't zoned for it, so he had to take it to the board to be considered for exception... and the county elected not to grant this particular exception for a lot of reasons, some of which were environmental impacts. It ain't like we made a new rule just for him... it's just that we elected not to allow the exception of zoning law for this particular purpose. Heck man, some counties don't even have an exception process... but we like to think we're a bit more understanding than that.
C'mon man, this county don't have a public water system or a public waste disposal system. Putting in a residential area means drilling multiple wells right next to multiple septic systems... and it just don't work that way. What about law enforcement, fire, and whatnot... cripes man, most of our first response people are volunteer. I could go on-and-on... but what's the point? You've already decided we're a bunch of selfish pricks anyway.
It isn't just ya'all over there at all, it is the bulk of the nation lost it. It is similar here with stuff that violates born with rights. The collective "we" lost personal freedoms and born with rights decades/generations ago, chipping away at it, bit by bit by bit. It can be tiny ionconsequential things, or big whoppers, but it all adds up.
Incosequential, you read about things like this, various "laws", some burg decides joe blows flag isn't allowed, or it is "too big" or something. some place disallows a garden because it is in the front yard...whoppers, how abouty 100th anniversary of losing true Constitutional money this year.
To me, property rights advocate, I don't care if someone wants to put an apple orchard in downtown big city, if they own the land and want to, or conversely, put in a neighborhood someplace so people can have a place to live, or have a farm, or a factory.
Once you start going down that road and not allowing freedoms that harm no one, eventually, it comes back to bite ya.
edit: I guess I want to add a personal note, as the denied subdivision got to me.
That's the best place I lived as a kid, small subdivision way out in the country, built on some acres that an old farmer sold to a contractor. With those "rules" in place, this kid here wouldn't have had a place in the country to live in and grow up in. Both my folks had no interest in big acreage or farming, they both were kids on farms during the depression and only had bad memories of extreme poverty. But..they knew country living with a better economy was good for kids, so despite a long commute my dad had to do, they got one of those lots and house out in farm country.
I loved it, hated it when we lived in town. I even worked for that old farmer in the summers as I grew up. If the local "zoning" hadn't allowed it, well....
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