From: Fred H. Schlesinger (fred@schlesingers.net)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 19:10:55 PST
Take off the tag axle and stencil a finger fist on the canvas, Park it on the
street in front of the Mayors house all day.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill & Bonnie Prestin" <bprestin@chartermi.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:20 PM
Subject: [MV] Is this the land of the free??
| I live on Main street, in a small town (Village) just off I75 in
| Michigan. My lot size is 75 ft. wide by 160 ft deep. I own a 2 1/2 ton 1952
| Studebaker(M342) and a 5 ton 1953 Diamont T(M51)
|
| I built a very large garage to house my trucks. In fact it approached
| the maximum height allowed for "accessory structures" in our town which was
| 25 ft tall. My garage is 24 ft. eight inches tall.
| I also maxed out the square feet of coverage rule on my lot which
| allows for 25% coverage. I have 24.98% coverage. My garage is 34 ft. wide
| by 46 ft long.
| My neighbor is one of the 5 council members in our town. Her brother,
| who also lives on main street, is another of the five council members. My
| neighbor was not happy at all about the size of my garage. So they made an
| amendment to the allowed height of accessory structures. The new maximum
| height allowed is 17 ft. six inches tall. luckily my garage was already
| done.
|
| I recently saw in the paper (you have to read the fine print) that there
| was a proposed ordinance to restrict all vehicles with more than two axles
| from driving on any street in town (excepting main street) lucky me, I live
| on main street. But the ordinance also restricts vehicles with more than two
| axles from parking on all streets in town including main street.
| Now, my trucks are stored in my garage at all times. In fact I only get
| one of them out, about 10-12 times a year. They are also licensed and
| insured as "historic" vehicles.
| Now occasionally, when family comes up to visit, I will get one out
| and give the kids rides around the block, stopping in the parallel parking
| in front of my house to let the kids swap out & take turns. I also use my
| trucks in the local 4th of July parade. This new ordinance would prevent me
| from doing both of these things.
| So I thought I would go to the meeting and talk to them about it. To say
| anything at our towns council meetings you have to get on the agenda. So I
| filled out the form the required week ahead of time. At the meeting, I ask
| If they could make an exclusion to the ordinance for licensed "historic
| vehicles". They said "we can't make an exclusion for just one person." I
| said " No I don't mean just me, it would be anyone with a historic vehicle
| with more than two axles." They said "that could be thousand of vehicles"
| "Doing that would defeat the purpose of the ordinance"
| Then they told me that they don't think I should be allowed to keep
| trucks of that size on residential property in the village, and they were
| going to approach the zoning board to ask If they could make me remove them.
| I am not really sure what action I should take? Should I wait until
| I get a letter saying I have to get rid of my trucks? Or is there something
| I could do pro-actively. It makes me wonder what is becoming of "The land of
| the free"
|
| Bill
|
|
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