<VV> Law moving thru the North Carolina legislature

[Gary Swiatowy]

These laws are ultimately fueled by the real estate speculators.
They do have a firm beleif that what you do with your property directly 
affects what they can sell their property for.
This can be legislated down to your right to change your own oil in your 
garage if it is perceived that a potential neighbor finds that unacceptable.
Non-running cars? Cars under restoration? Unlicensed vehicles? You bet.
For example, when I lived in Akron NY, Town of Newstead they had one pending 
as a local law and 60 of us went to the meeting. They have never had more 
than one or 2 citizens at a meeting and it was standing room only. They were 
worried...........
The way they had the law written. A brand new Ferrari, would be considered a 
public nuisance, seized, and destroyed at your expense, courtesy of the 
town, if it was found it was not licensed. Their law concerned motorized 
vehicles, and trailers. Must be garaged, or unlawful.
This was a farming community, and the way it was defined it would have 
included tractors, combines, lawn mowers, ATV's  trailers, farm implementsd 
and for that matter a motorized wheelchair.
They dropped the law, and a few months later snuck in a modified version as 
a zoning ordinance, that they did not have to get passed by vote.

One of the reasons I moved to where I am now............

Gary Swiatowy

> From: "henry kaczmarek" <kaczmarek at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Law moving thru the North Carolina legislature
>
> for those who don't live in NC
>
> The cities mentioned in the bill are all around me . Cornelius and
> Huntersville (about 25 miles from the house) border Lake Norman, which is
> where most of the cryin' comes from.  Mostly Yankee transplants from New
> England who want to impose their views on us.
>
> The other towns are mostly old textile  "mill towns" where the old "mill
> homes" are being torn down and replaced by McMansions, and the mills are
> being renovated into condominiums that sell up to the mid 6 figures.  Some
> areas have several "gated communities" where the covenants want you to
> submit your home color changes to the "association" and get approval 
> before
> you paint your 600K home.   I think not.
>
> Stanley, Mount Holly,and Cherryville are all within 20 miles of my place,
> though in different counties.  But Cherryville is only 6 miles down the
> road.
>
> This was tried in Lincoln County/Lincolnton in 2004, our Commissioners
> listened, SEMA got involved, and the ordinance was changed to read that 
> you
> can have as many non-operable vehicles on your property that you want, as
> long as they cannot be seen from a state right of way.  That protected all
> the people in subdivisions, as most of their homes aren't seen from the
> state roads.
>
> I live on a state road, but I have my parts vehicles stashed behind my
> carport, which makes them invisible from the road.  You cannot use tarps 
> or
> pallets, etc to screen your cars from the road---good dense shrubs or 
> fences
> if necessary.
>
> My NC house member is a young POS lawyer, who knows what I think of him.
> But I did inform my company president, who is a former SEMA board member, 
> my
> boss who works on several SEMA committees, and our production manager who 
> is
> past president of the Chamber of Commerce.  The latter is going to be on
> Lake Norman with the Assemblyman today.
>
> He asked me if he should talk to him, or just throw him off the boat.
>
> I told him it depends on his answer to the question--do you support this
> bill?
>
> Hank