Run in circles, scream and shout!

Helloooooooooooo!

Everybody! CALM DOWN! I can't BELIEVE how bellicose a lot of y'all are getting.

At the risk of sounding like I'm siding with INVARS (I'm looking at this as a GREY AREA, until I get more info), I would like to say that:

1)Shame on the Stitts if they really busted their neighbors for growing herb.

2) Regarding zoning laws, and I have more experience than I would wish on anyone, they are difficult to write or enforce fairly.

If the local beaurocrats follow them exactly to the letter, they are accused (rightly) of being small minded beaurocrats.

If they make a little "executive decision" because of a special circumstance which was not envisioned by the original writers of the ordinance, they are accused (SOMETIMES rightly) of "favoritism".

So there it is. Zonin laws are almost certain to catch people in a "Catch 22" position.

Most unfortunately, zoning laws are RIPE for abuse. There are so many rules and regulations, that the plannning beaurocrats can't even figure out half of them, at least where I live. So they only enforce the ones they want to.

RESULT: The planners fellow church member wants to open up a rock quarry which would destroy the ambience of the neighborhood, and possibly cause asbestos air pollution all over the county, no problem. Don't even bother to fill out all the paper work. I's ok.

Someone else wants to build a single family HOUSE in the same neighborhood, right next door, in fact; no problem--you can't build that house, even though it's on 23 acres of land, because IT MIGHT DISTURB THE DEER!!!!

Although this sounds like an exaggerated example, this actually happened here, and there have been MANY MANY other examples of favoritism.

It SOUNDS LIKE the Stitts are experiencing this type of favoritism, but until I have heard a lot more convincing data than that so far posted, I'm not running up there to protest. I've got enough graft and corruption in my own back yard.

Mr. and Mrs. Stitt, good luck. May your children have more awareness of the overpopulation of our planet than you do.

Al

-- Al K. Lloyd (al@ready.now), August 17, 1999