When I moved to town 21 years ago the code enforcement officer told me I could make the bungalo on the property of the house I was renting into a welding shop one day when I could afford it. It took me five years to save for a down payment to buy the property. Ten more I rented out the bungalo as a condition of holding the mortgage and I finally had enough equity to refinance and get some welding equipment. So, what happens? I go to apply to finally start the business and they say my block isn't zoned for light manufacturing anymore. Twenty years of living in a commercial zone and listening to the noise from all the nearby businesses and now when it's finally my turn at bat the rat bastards want to take it away from me. To make insult injury they hand me a bunch of papers for appealing the zoning decision. I'd have to give notorized notification to every homeowner for 200 yards and supply 15 copies of each to the council, put ads in the paper of my intent and pay a whole bunch of fees probably totaling about a thousand dollars for a few precious minutes of the town councils time before they ultimatly probably turn me down anyway.
Worse yet there has been rampant stealing of peoples properties here on the Jersey shore by the Government through eminent domain Rumor has it that our town is targeted. Mostly because they tripled everyones tax assesment 96% of the people who lived here five years ago have left. No new businesses have come to town in the last five years. Most existing businesses change hands every couple years and there are many storefronts that have sat empty for years. The only thing the town of Highlands has succeeded in recruiting is the bloods and cripts gangs thanks to their policy of buying up contracts to take in section eight housing recipients. People are getting murdered here now. Yesterday a guy a block away got caught with an AK47. I think that since towns are legally justified to seize houses through eminent domain in blighted areas that the town is actively orchestrating blight in part by using thier ability to strangle business through code enforcement (an obvious criminal conflict of interest the kelo decision addresses saying essentially that we have to trust our government not to act on this conflict of interest granted them). That's unAmerican. We have a saying here in America; "IN GOD WE TRUST". I think maybe those justices ought to be made to repeat that a few times so they don't forget it. That's why I feel my business was turned down and why it would be again if I appealed. Why would they nurture small business start ups that may take years to pay off like they did back when that was the only game in town when now they can sell your home out from under you for big giant pay offs and campaign contributions from developers?
So, I've been using my rejected business as a home business/storage for my mobile welding business for the last year and a half and now they want to shut that down (I got a ticket for having an illegal welding shop with no merchantile license) undoubtedly so they can force me out too.
It's all just so unfair, the Kelo decision the supreme court made destroyed the freedom and right to own property for the common man by throwing it to the mercy of the whims and corruptions of local government. Judges are instructed to respect peoples rights, if for no other reason then to ensure their own rights are respected. If the supreme court thinks revanue is more important than rights they should save government a buck by being made into lampshades for the city hall because nothing blights a free country more than those who would take that freedom away. If as they claim it were the intent of our forefathers to saddle us with a government based on blind trust, and the right to own property we've enjoyed for the last 200 years was just some kind of mistake then the revolution must have been a mistake too since that was just the kind of government we ejected. And if that's the case, well then I guess then it should be up to the queen of England to decide whether I should be allowed a welding shop.
HELP! how am I going to fight these bastards? Has anybody else here ran into this sort of B.S.? On the one hand I should probably just leave but that would give them their victory and that just ****es me off. On the other I've heard that in eminent domain settlements you get more if you have a business and I'd at least like to score that minor victory. Insight, ideas anyone?
Worse yet there has been rampant stealing of peoples properties here on the Jersey shore by the Government through eminent domain Rumor has it that our town is targeted. Mostly because they tripled everyones tax assesment 96% of the people who lived here five years ago have left. No new businesses have come to town in the last five years. Most existing businesses change hands every couple years and there are many storefronts that have sat empty for years. The only thing the town of Highlands has succeeded in recruiting is the bloods and cripts gangs thanks to their policy of buying up contracts to take in section eight housing recipients. People are getting murdered here now. Yesterday a guy a block away got caught with an AK47. I think that since towns are legally justified to seize houses through eminent domain in blighted areas that the town is actively orchestrating blight in part by using thier ability to strangle business through code enforcement (an obvious criminal conflict of interest the kelo decision addresses saying essentially that we have to trust our government not to act on this conflict of interest granted them). That's unAmerican. We have a saying here in America; "IN GOD WE TRUST". I think maybe those justices ought to be made to repeat that a few times so they don't forget it. That's why I feel my business was turned down and why it would be again if I appealed. Why would they nurture small business start ups that may take years to pay off like they did back when that was the only game in town when now they can sell your home out from under you for big giant pay offs and campaign contributions from developers?
So, I've been using my rejected business as a home business/storage for my mobile welding business for the last year and a half and now they want to shut that down (I got a ticket for having an illegal welding shop with no merchantile license) undoubtedly so they can force me out too.
It's all just so unfair, the Kelo decision the supreme court made destroyed the freedom and right to own property for the common man by throwing it to the mercy of the whims and corruptions of local government. Judges are instructed to respect peoples rights, if for no other reason then to ensure their own rights are respected. If the supreme court thinks revanue is more important than rights they should save government a buck by being made into lampshades for the city hall because nothing blights a free country more than those who would take that freedom away. If as they claim it were the intent of our forefathers to saddle us with a government based on blind trust, and the right to own property we've enjoyed for the last 200 years was just some kind of mistake then the revolution must have been a mistake too since that was just the kind of government we ejected. And if that's the case, well then I guess then it should be up to the queen of England to decide whether I should be allowed a welding shop.
HELP! how am I going to fight these bastards? Has anybody else here ran into this sort of B.S.? On the one hand I should probably just leave but that would give them their victory and that just ****es me off. On the other I've heard that in eminent domain settlements you get more if you have a business and I'd at least like to score that minor victory. Insight, ideas anyone?
