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  City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 18:01 +0000
    Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-24 21:20 +0000
      Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 22:14 +0000
      Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-26 09:42 +0000
        Re: City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-28 07:21 +0000

#3825 — City Cracks Down On 9-Year-Old For Opening Free Library In His Front Yard

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-library/#triple-feature

  A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
  little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
  shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.

  ...


  On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
  complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
  in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.

  But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
  saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
  be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
  having structures on their property that are detached from the
  physical house.

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#3834

On 2014-06-24, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-library/#triple-feature
>
>   A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
>   little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
>   shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.
>
>   ...
>
>
>   On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
>   complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
>   in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
>
>   But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
>   saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
>   be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
>   having structures on their property that are detached from the
>   physical house.

Do you think it's a requirement to be an arsehole to work in zoning, or that
they become one as the years pass by?


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"I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your
immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on
another." Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811

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#3838

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-06-24, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> > http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-library/#triple-feature
> >
> >   A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
> >   little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
> >   shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.
> >
> >   ...
> >
> >
> >   On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
> >   complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
> >   in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
> >
> >   But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
> >   saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
> >   be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
> >   having structures on their property that are detached from the
> >   physical house.

> Do you think it's a requirement to be an arsehole to work in zoning, or that
> they become one as the years pass by?

Probably a little of both.  Plus a certain amount of "just
numbers/words on a sheet of paper/form".

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#3879

Huge put finger to keyboard:

> On 2014-06-24, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-
library/#triple-feature
>>
>>   A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
>>   little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
>>   shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.
>>
>>   ...
>>
>>
>>   On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
>>   complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
>>   in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
>>
>>   But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
>>   saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
>>   be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
>>   having structures on their property that are detached from the
>>   physical house.
> 
> Do you think it's a requirement to be an arsehole to work in zoning, or
> that they become one as the years pass by?

It's seen as a definite advantage.

Here in the UK, friends of mine applied for a loft conversion including a 
dormer window. They were turned down because the window was inappropriate 
to the style of the area. They appealed on the grounds that the window was 
at the back of the house, not visible from any part of any public road and 
more than half the houses in their road had such dormer windows already. 
The appeal was upheld and they were allowed their loft conversion and 
dormer window. Provided they demolished their (detached) garage.

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#3912

On 2014-06-26, Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Huge put finger to keyboard:
>
>> On 2014-06-24, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/23/3451818/9yo-boy-little-
> library/#triple-feature
>>>
>>>   A nine-year-old boy in eastern Kansas who decided to open his own
>>>   little front-yard library and share books with his neighbors has been
>>>   shut down for violating a city zoning ordinance.
>>>
>>>   ...
>>>
>>>
>>>   On May 11, Mother's Day, Collins put out his own little free library,
>>>   complete with children's classics like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle
>>>   in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
>>>
>>>   But a month later, his parents received a letter from officials
>>>   saying the library violated the city's zoning ordinance and needed to
>>>   be removed or they would be fined. The city prohibits people from
>>>   having structures on their property that are detached from the
>>>   physical house.
>> 
>> Do you think it's a requirement to be an arsehole to work in zoning, or
>> that they become one as the years pass by?
>
> It's seen as a definite advantage.
>
> Here in the UK, ...

Oh, I'm in the UK. I know all about the planners here. Grrrrrr.


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immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on
another." Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811

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