From: william f cox (grntrks@juno.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 21:48:03 PST
Hi Bill,
If you wind up hiring a lawyer, post an email. I' m not rich but, I'll
gladly and proudly send $20.00 to the "Prestin Legal Defense Fund" just
to know I had a small part of puttig a few elitist despots in their
place.
Nuff said,
Frank Cox (grntrks@juno.com)
Vietnam 1966
'45 GMC 353 DUKW
'66 M35A2 w/w
'68 M105A1
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:20:04 -0500 "Bill & Bonnie Prestin"
<bprestin@chartermi.net> writes:
> 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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Frank Cox (grntrks@juno.com)
Vietnam 1966
'45 GMC 353 DUKW
'66 M35A2 w/w
'68 M105A1
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