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Kurt Ullman

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(Don Klipstein) wrote:

In , Kurt Ullman wrote:

What I hear from family members and friends is that HOAS tend to be
worse because their busybodies are not lazy. While municipal governments
have more of a tendency to be lazy.
Sorta depends. I have known bureaucrats to get a bug up their ass
about things and, with the police powers available to the government,
have made life miserable.

I have yet to hear of municipal governments forbidding people from
parking trucks on their driveways, regulating house paint colors and color
schemes to such extent as sometimes effectively specifying a particular
brand, forbidding people from working on their own cars on their own
driveways, forbidding above-ground pools where in-ground pools are
allowed, forbidding outdoor solar/wind drying of laundry, or forbidding
someone from romantically kissing a date in front of the home before going
in for the night.
There are a couple that come close. Things like driveways,
regulation of colors and in-ground pools have been included in the
zoning variances for subdivisions around here. Height is another biggy.
And then there are the restrictions on historic houses, but that is more
self-inflicted since you have to apply for them or know the status when
you buy them.

That gets harder to enforce, since cops don't tour homes the way I hear
HOA busybodies often get to do one way or another.

That is largely self-inflicted, again. You should know the
neighborhood busy-bodies and just don't invite them into your house.

And as much as Americans like to bash lawyers, why do Americans vote for
so many of them for state government legislative offices and for both
houses of US Congress?
Lawyers are the only ones who can take the time off from actually
doing work to run.

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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist