I, too, would be interested to see the ordinances. I believe WizardMarks,
but I want to read it in disbelief myself.
To a certain extent we bring this sort of thing on ourselves. We deserve
what we get. We hand to city council-persons the power to do this kind of
stuff. Sure, we've been down the road before of how we allow council people
to make decisions in our stead (and yes, to a certain extent, that's what we
pay them for.) But c'mon, for the sake of G-d, there's gotta be a limit. And
that's when things like this happen......when the council runs out of
really, truly important things to do, they'll invent things to do, like this
crap. I'm sure the council-critters that voted about the windows and the
siding thought it was a good idea, and I'm sure they have their reasons, and
they believe that the reasons are good, and the ordinances are a "good
idea". And, as is the political style in this state, if it's a good idea,
it's just gotta be a law. Then we don't have to make our own decisions then
(such as deciding on our own how many windows we have or th etype of siding
we have), and politicians again get the green light, and the entire cyclical
process begins anew.
As I said, we get what we elect.
I wish the city council and the state legislature both would take a year off
from making laws and get rid of about 30% of the inane, pointless, busy-body
laws we have.
Mike Thompson
Windom
----- Original Message -----
From: "wmmarks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "mpls issues" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:38 PM
Subject: [Mpls] your city council
As we sit in the middle of an oil war with gas going up at the pump every
Wednesday it seems like, your city council voted on April 29 of this year
to change the ordinance governing the number of windows in single, duplex,
triplex, and fourplex buildings. The code formerly read that sides facing
the street must have 7% of the area in windows. The council changed that
to 15%. (Ordinance 535.90, Section C.) Only Lilligren voted against it,
though Zerby, Johnson, and Goodman were not there. The two Greens on the
council voted in the affirmative..
In another action the council voted that new house construction cannot
have either aluminum or vinyl siding, in a stroke making housing less
affordable and harder to care for, particularly for seniors and disabled
persons.
Real nice. Real dumb. Real typical.
WizardMarks, Central
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