Garage Restrictions

[nancejd]

Well to be honest Vince, I wouldn't like it, but so what? As long as it didn't stink and you could keep your chickens quiet, it really wouldn't be any of my business. You're suppossed to be free remember, isn't that worth more than your property value? Besides, if his neighbors hate it that much, maybe they should get together, pool their money, and buy the place, and kick him out of the neighborhood. Then they can tear it down, place a covenant on the land requiring approval from the neighborhood for any new construction, and resell it. The core issue is not whether it's ugly and people wouldn't like it, or neighbor relations, or whatever. The core issue is what level of decision making do your neighbors have over your life and property, using the government to enforce their wishes?

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )