02-26-2010, 05:00 PM
Ah, replies came up when I was writing.
Bob, do you have the text of what they promised to do and not do? Would love to see it.
terry.way - bringing in England doesn't help. Those pubs may have been there for three hundred years for all we know. I think the European concept is lovely. What I don't think is lovely is taking a non-commercial parcel, applying to conduct a purely educational facility for children, getting approved for that, and then starting activities that require a zoning change!
Rob said
>>> I think that you need to consider that large landowners were handed a "get out of responsibilties free" card by the county in 1959. Everyone else gets to live with the result. As population increases the problems of lack of planning and subsidizing 1950's developers increases.
Rob, I totally agree. I think what was done was criminal. I keep telling people to read Land and Power. I'm just talking about the current vision of the Planning Director as he expresses it. Personally, I would love to CPR my land as I don't use it all and if there could be another dwelling it could be fully utilized AND probably more crops would be grown. BUT I bought it knowing the zoning and I cannot do that. I can accept that, but selective enforcement irritates me.
My neighbor has an art gallery and sometimes she has live music on Sundays. And conducts on site painting classes, which increases vehicles. Not at all permitted; her whole structure doesn't exist on TMK maps. I am not going to complain. But if she did it more often, and more amplified, that would not fly with me, because at that point her enterprise would be wiping out my ability to enjoy my property. Which would be wrong. But I'm not writing about this because I'm projecting my situation onto the Seaview deal. I'm not worried that the activity where I live is going to get out of control. I simply believe that zoning protections matter.
People commit their life savings and relocate to a specific spot on the planet with the understanding that zoning is a factor, and I strongly object to the idea that "community good" should cast them as bad guys for objecting when something expands beyond its approved scope. Time for it to find another site. Time for the community to help it find a site that is suitable for the new level of usage.
Bob, do you have the text of what they promised to do and not do? Would love to see it.
terry.way - bringing in England doesn't help. Those pubs may have been there for three hundred years for all we know. I think the European concept is lovely. What I don't think is lovely is taking a non-commercial parcel, applying to conduct a purely educational facility for children, getting approved for that, and then starting activities that require a zoning change!
Rob said
>>> I think that you need to consider that large landowners were handed a "get out of responsibilties free" card by the county in 1959. Everyone else gets to live with the result. As population increases the problems of lack of planning and subsidizing 1950's developers increases.
Rob, I totally agree. I think what was done was criminal. I keep telling people to read Land and Power. I'm just talking about the current vision of the Planning Director as he expresses it. Personally, I would love to CPR my land as I don't use it all and if there could be another dwelling it could be fully utilized AND probably more crops would be grown. BUT I bought it knowing the zoning and I cannot do that. I can accept that, but selective enforcement irritates me.
My neighbor has an art gallery and sometimes she has live music on Sundays. And conducts on site painting classes, which increases vehicles. Not at all permitted; her whole structure doesn't exist on TMK maps. I am not going to complain. But if she did it more often, and more amplified, that would not fly with me, because at that point her enterprise would be wiping out my ability to enjoy my property. Which would be wrong. But I'm not writing about this because I'm projecting my situation onto the Seaview deal. I'm not worried that the activity where I live is going to get out of control. I simply believe that zoning protections matter.
People commit their life savings and relocate to a specific spot on the planet with the understanding that zoning is a factor, and I strongly object to the idea that "community good" should cast them as bad guys for objecting when something expands beyond its approved scope. Time for it to find another site. Time for the community to help it find a site that is suitable for the new level of usage.