Re: [UC] Is this in the future? PAINT is REGULATED, waiver is only a practice.

[Brnx45]

Al,

I say it again...scare tactics. I've read 14-2007 in its entirety and nowhere does the language contradict Laura Spina's public declarations that the HC does NOT regulate exterior color. Nor does it say "that they "can" regulate everything that affects the outside of the building", as you state. You may not call making sweeping statements like this scare tactics, but I do.

Let's get real, as Neil Lifson points out, anything could happen in the future...zoning changes regularly as do other city regulations or state or federal. Does it make any sense to look for the bogeyman in everything and base our decisions on "what if's", or on reality as we find it each and every day?

To your comments about HC controlling residential interiors and again, to keep other readers from being misled by scare tactics, please re-read section 8C which clearly addresses this as maintaining the structural integrity of the interior so as to prevent exterior decay and deterioration.

Finally, re: permits, etc., you say:

"Also, it's not clear whether you can just go ahead with unregulated items, or have to send in an application with pictures, bills of materials, and so forth anyway.)"

It is clearly spelled out that HC regulations apply to those repairs which also require a city building permit. To the argument you and others have put forward...that HD places an unreasonable burden on owners' time to "jump through all of HC's hoops" (scare tactics again), I think a conservative estimate would be that the average homeowner probably applies for 2-3 permits over 10-15 years. Simultaneous submission to HC every 5 years or so doesn't seem onerous to me. In fact, in most cases it's the contractor who handles this FOR the owner.

P.S.  Rumor has it you've received answers to the questions from the HC Community Meeting on April 24th that were sent to Jannie Blackwell. Are you planning on posting them?

Jim Lilly