... All I want is to lower it about 8 feet so it fits the neighborhood. The city council agrees with me. The city planners, city manager, and neighbors also. CE
Quote from: Clarke Echols on June 29, 2006, 10:37:17 PM... All I want is to lower it about 8 feet so it fits the neighborhood. The city council agrees with me. The city planners, city manager, and neighbors also. CEWhat dork in the city planning and zoning approved this "temple" in the first place? Same crap goes on in my hometown, but we know where the city planners park their cars and they had better not try to approve something before it is well studied and approved by the neighbors. Believe me, big developers don't give a whit about being good neighbors. A bank put in a branch office beside my property and I had to watch 'em like a hawk when the parking lot was being put in. They quietly moved the edge of the lot over on my property some four feet. When I stopped the operation, they merely advised me to contact the bank's corporate office. I didn't ... just stormed out to city hall and waltzed into the city engineers office ... told them what was happening. The guy pulled out his copy of the plans and ... whoa ... the drawings were not the same as the set that I saw in the hands of the parking lot contractor. It is sad that "us little people" have to constantly wage an uphill battle with big corporations.Merlin
Quote from: Merlin on June 30, 2006, 06:59:06 AMQuote from: Clarke Echols on June 29, 2006, 10:37:17 PM... All I want is to lower it about 8 feet so it fits the neighborhood. The city council agrees with me. The city planners, city manager, and neighbors also. CEWhat dork in the city planning and zoning approved this "temple" in the first place? Same crap goes on in my hometown, but we know where the city planners park their cars and they had better not try to approve something before it is well studied and approved by the neighbors. Believe me, big developers don't give a whit about being good neighbors. A bank put in a branch office beside my property and I had to watch 'em like a hawk when the parking lot was being put in. They quietly moved the edge of the lot over on my property some four feet. When I stopped the operation, they merely advised me to contact the bank's corporate office. I didn't ... just stormed out to city hall and waltzed into the city engineers office ... told them what was happening. The guy pulled out his copy of the plans and ... whoa ... the drawings were not the same as the set that I saw in the hands of the parking lot contractor. It is sad that "us little people" have to constantly wage an uphill battle with big corporations.MerlinThe problem with Walgreens isn't at city hall. The city planners don't like it. The city manager doesn't like it. The city council doesn't like it. The neighbors don't like it. But the LAW states that there are certain "uses by right" that come with "business" zoning. And the city has codes and guidelines that must be followed. But if Walgreens stays (barely) inside the codes and guidelines, the city cannot stop them from doing what they want within those limits.Walgreens (like most corporations who have PR departments that generate barnyard solid waste (that's why it's called "BS") of the male bovine variety, and theirs keeps saying (like their real-estate guy was telling me) "We want to be good corporate citizens in the local community". Translation: "Come and worship at the throne of our Temple to the God Of Corporate Capitalist Greed, and be sure to drop your dollars in the till on your way out to show your proper respect for our having blessing you with Our Wondrous Corporate Presence."There is a big difference between doing what is *legal*, and doing what is *right*. And you're right. The developers are as bad or worse than the Big Corporations.Don't misunderstand, though. I am a vocal supporter of private property rights and free enterprise. But when Big Corporations come to town and push their weight around, that is not free enterprise, and it is abuse of private property rights as well.So a bunch of us will simply collectively spit in their corporate eye and shop across the street and a block down the road...Clarke
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