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Originally Posted by eyc234
Well was talking with the boss and we remember discussions that went something to the effect if all the other kids jumped off the cliff would you? These thought processes are part of what is wrong with todays society. People pick and choose what laws/rules they want to obey or ignore. Just because others do it does not make it right or should be acceptable. If you start picking what laws/rules you want to follow/obey I choose to take $10 out of all Villagers into my account monthly.
As for rules in TV, you bought here, you new the rules, so live within them. Understand that the restrictions may not be administered 100% across the board but do we really want that? It would make for a whole lot of shrubbery trimming and removal, as well as seeing sights we do not want to see in backyards and a huge loss of privacy in some cases. As for statuary & yard art, if you are reported remove it for a few days and then put it back. If you do this enough times either the trolls will get tired & go away or they will have a heart attack from getting so mad/frustrated. As for the crosses paint them green and call them a plant stake. If you do not think restrictions are needed drive thru some of the unrestricted developments and get very scared by the nome villages, holiday lights up year round and more religious statues than the Vatican. These types of things are exactly why there are restrictions & rules. |
This is the problem that pro-restriction people have with homeowners, and anti-restriction people have with restrictions. The answer to the question you ask in the bold/underlined is - YES. Yes, we want restrictions enforced evenly and uniformly. If it's a bad restriction, then change the restriction. If it's a good restriction, then enforce it among ALL homeowners who are in violation of those restrictions. Not just the ones that have had someone complain about it.
As we are seeing here on this forum, and in other online sources (not just "that other news site" but on other non-Villages fora that have threads about the Villages)...
it IS an issue. The fact that this is a complaint-driven system - is the problem. Someone can have something that they never knew was a violation, for years. Maybe the property even came with it. Like a widened driveway, or extra landscaping, or an oversized awning over the front yard. No one complains about it, they bought it that way, and so they just assumed everything was hunky dory.
Fast forward 12 years and a new neighbor moves in, wants to do the same thing and is told they can't. They want to know why they can't, when their neighbor did? CS has to check it out, they find the neighbor has been in violation of this for the past 12 years, and forces the neighbor to pay someone to dig up the extra slice of driveway, or gut the garden, or remove and replace the awning. Even though it was like that when they bought it and no one brought it up for 12 years.
Either it should be enforced across all properties that have these restrictions, or it shouldn't be enforceable at all.