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Originally Posted by roob1
Why does one need accountability when he/she reports a POSSIBLE infraction? After all, he/she is not the final determiner that a violation occurred, Community Standards is.
If CS had a record of the complainer, then what? Would the offender confronting the reporter result in anything positive?
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The objection on my end is to the anonymity. There's zero accountability on the part of the person making the complaint, if the Community Standards doesn't have to record who that person is.
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I've gone into detail and given several examples over the last 15 pages of this thread, and of two previous threads on similar topics. But sure, here it is again:
There are people in this world who are not nice. They are petty and vindictive. This is a given and the Villages are not exempt from this.
Community Standards will investigate ALL complaints against a property.
Here's a new example, because this seems just so fitting and obvious:
Mr. Jones had a little ornamental statue on his front garden bed. Nothing tacky, just a simple little terra cotta bridge, three feet long, half a foot wide, curving over a winding stream made of blue river-rock. It had been there for the past 10 years, and he took good care of the garden bed, growing beautiful flowers and low-growing shrubbery with a few stepping stones leading to and from the little bridge.
Miss Smith was rebuffed by Mr. Jones when she found out he was a widow and wanted to hook up with him. Miss Smith was a petty, nasty woman, and reported Mr. Jones for the violation of the bridge. Not because she felt it shouldn't be there, but because she had a personal problem with Mr. Jones, and she was somewhat unhinged.
So CS came and made him move the decoration. He did - he put it under the eaves in a different flower bed. CS signed off on it and were satisfied.
Miss Smith, thinking she was going to create a lot of trouble for Mr. Jones, became even more unhinged, and decided she would take it out on CS. It was their fault, afterall, for not making Mr. Jones remove the entire decoration from his property.
So Miss Smith started reporting all kinds of violations in various neighborhoods. She just made them up, because she wanted CS to suffer. She wanted them to have to work harder than necessary over nothing at all, because she felt they didn't work hard enough on helping her "get back at" Mr. Jones for not wanting to date her.
And since she didn't have to give her name or address, there was nothing CS could do about it. They had to inconvenience themselves and look into every single non-existing violation.
That is just ONE example of one thing that COULD happen, if it hasn't already happened. I know of one situation that isn't the same, but is similar, in my own neighborhood in OB. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE restrictions in the historic area. They're very much more relaxed than the rest of the Villages but they do exist, and you can be in violation of them, and CS will infract you if you are. There are people who have personal scores to settle against neighbors, and will take it out on each other by using CS as their weapon.
And if CS doesn't do what the neighbor thinks should be done, they'll take it out on CS.
CS has no recourse, because it is an anonymous complaint system.