Re: Re: He got a ticket for parking his tractor in front of his house?

Posted by Chris Jones on January 08, 2002 at 19:40:29 from (65.81.120.121):

In Reply to: Re: He got a ticket for parking his tractor in front of his house? posted by bummer on January 08, 2002 at 17:34:16:

I just saw all the postings. Pretty scary. Sorry he lost. I guess I'll say a little here now.

When I bought my house I didn't want to be in a neighborhood with any associations etc to govern what I could do with my land. I know they can cover what kind and where cars can be parked, colors things can be painted, fencing, cutting grass etc--we've seen all the examples. I also know there are times I'd like some restrictions. I mean nobody wants a neighbors junk bringing down the value of their property or just having to see what they feel is an eyesore every day. However, we rarely see our own stuff the way others see it and we can't imagine our stuff as bothering our neighbors. Where do we draw the line? The obvious point is very different for different people (even people sharing the same roof). I've seen people with small auto junkyards consisting of dozens of junk cars on their lots. I've seen people with lots junky beyond description with damaged salvaged construction materials and several badly damaged singlewide mobile homes. Junk in the front yard and back. It can get ugly. I've seen people's hobbies for fixing 4x4's look an auto service center for old vehicles. I've seen people open for profit businesses in their homes that generate considerable traffic and parking issues for their neighbors (like not being able to get in your drive because someone parked in it to visit your neighbor?). Taking that further I can see in some neighborhoods around here where the thought of someone working on junky old tractors in their yard is outlandish to the majority of the folks in the community and they feel an ordnance is needed. Probably a nice restored one isn't what most were trying to restrict when they made the ordnance but one a$$ hole used the ordnance against this fellow in this case. I think it is all to common these days to think we can build the perfect community if we leave no stone unregulated.

I'm sure it's happening all over but it is a progression I watch in sorrow around here these days. Nice office working families far removed from the farm move to the outskirts of the city for the quality of life. They move into neighborhoods with 1/4 acre manicured lawns which used to be some poor farmers land that he sold when he found the only crop he could make money planting was houses. The neighbors then immediately start complaining about the surrounding farmer's animals and tractors. Smells, slow moving equipment when they're rushing off to work and late nights on the tractor to get work done before the rains all cause complaints. It has recently made local governments start looking for ways to tell people moving into these areas what they should know to start with, that these are agricultural areas.

I can have tractors and have 3 here now but still I take great care not to pi$$ of my neighbors as I live by them -- thankfully I'm on great terms with all of them. I don't want to bother them and I certainly don't want them resorting to get even scenarios because I pi$$ed them off.

Oh, almost forgot the most agrivating thing a neighbor can do to me -- hours going over their lawn with a leaf blower! It wouldn't take much to make me agree to ban them even though I have one too.

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• Re: Re: Re: He got a ticket for parking his tractor in front of his house? Jet9N 16:18:39 01/09/02 (0)
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