Comments on: “Their town has become farcically overregulated”

By: A shared-driveway neighbor war - Overlawyered

A shared-driveway neighbor war - Overlawyered — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:45:03 +0000

[…] anger-management classes, and a [no-contact] court order.” [Terrence McCoy, Washington Post] Last month we noted what one resident called the “farcically overregulated” state of land use controls in […]

By: marco73

marco73 — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:55:10 +0000

Our little village in Florida has quite a collection of Condo Commandos, busybodies who go around constantly informing on who is breaking what regulation concerning trees, lawns; landscaping, decks, etc.
I have a neighbor who had 2 large oak trees in his front yard, and had been trying for over 1 year to get a permit to remove both of them. City regulations, homeowners associations bylaws, he just could not get the approvals.
Then we had hurricanes Charly, Fran, and Jean in 2004. There were trees aplenty blown down all over the place. My neighbor’s 2 trees somehow got added to the pile. Although I would not suggest going out in the eye of a hurricane to “help” the natural process through judicious use of an axe and a chainsaw.

By: JTW

JTW — Sat, 16 May 2015 10:14:27 +0000

Most galling of all is when such regulations are in place for residents but the city itself cuts down trees at will left and right for no good reason whatsoever.
E.g. they cut down over a hundred trees here last year “because the root systems were lifting up bicycle trails”. The city council decided it was too expensive to repave those trails every 5-10 years to repair damage from tree roots working loose the pavement so they cut down the trees that had been providing shade to those trails for decades instead.
Without of course planting new trees to replace them, which any commoner would be by law required to do at a 2-1 ratio (plant 2 trees for every 1 tree removed).
And those were just a few of the thousand or more trees this city removed just last year for reasons other than that they were sick, infested with parasites, or dead.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Fri, 15 May 2015 18:07:38 +0000

Woodman, spare that tree!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjyD5wZjZ-U

We had some family friends surnamed Woodman, but I never had an occasion to spring this dubious pun on them.

By: Chevy Chase: “town has become farcically overregulated” | Free State Notes

Fri, 15 May 2015 12:16:42 +0000

[…] More: Philip K. Howard with ideas for fixing environmental permitting. [cross-posted from Overlawyered] […]

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:16:04 +0000

Pffft. Frustrating, sure. But they have nothing on Santa Monica. My bureaucratic nadir was when they demanded manufacturer’s data detailing how long the ink would last on the labeling for a solar power system.