how to handle zoning disagreements

[lethe]

All together now!

"The road to hell is paved with..."

puppies and kittens.

[lauramonster]

hubby was contacted by a client to get an approval for a gas station. They asked for a variance, and the powers to be said no ( didn't think a gas station was pretty enough ).  Owner was pissed enough to research waht was allowed and needed no variance.  ADULT BOOKSTORE !

I think it's the way the townships turn us down.  They're not friendly, no compromise, no education.

We pay taxes, that makes us the client? right?

(Update: a gas station has since moved in next door.  After 5 years, the township asked them to change tenants, so the landlord tripled the rent in order to move.  Bookstore still there.  very profitable business.)

[Popeye the Sailor]

hubby was contacted by a client to get an approval for a gas station. They asked for a variance, and the powers to be said no ( didn't think a gas station was pretty enough ).  Owner was pissed enough to research waht was allowed and needed no variance.  ADULT BOOKSTORE !

I think it's the way the townships turn us down.  They're not friendly, no compromise, no education.

It's like that time a girl turned me down for a date with no explanation so I shaved her prized poodle bald.

[redxblack]

As with many things, zoning laws were invented by great minds but now tended by chimps

Probably everyone outside of zoning offices would agree with this.

[dropstharockalot]

Probably everyone outside of zoning offices would agree with this.

I work in one, and I agree with this.

[Popeye the Sailor]

I work in one, and I agree with this.

You know you just called yourself a chimp, right?

[dropstharockalot]

You know you just called yourself a chimp, right?

Yup.  I'm eating a banana as I type this (possible, as I've held the 'naner with my prehensile tail and peeled it with my nimble simian toes).


And as much as I'd like to take credit for all of the truly stupid things that come out of my office, please bear in mind that I have a team working on everything that I do.  My actions typically take the form of advice to a publicly-elected or publicly-appointed board - and the main criteria for those is that you be 1) breathing and 2) have one more vote than the other guy (note: there are exceptions.  Tennessee elects dead guys and Florida and Ohio give seats to people that lose).  And no matter how hard I try to continue to re-enforce the stereotype of an idiotic, ignorant government drone, well-oiled machines like the Indy/Marion Co. BZA know their role and fucntion SO WELL that they keep me from crapping the bed on a regular basis.


Thank goodness for citizen oversight.