WTF is going on in Wheatland Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan? I understand we’ve had some folks move in from the city (where these things make more sense), and everyone thinks they know what’s best for their neighbors, but some of this anti-blight stuff that’s been proposed is nuts. If it passes, you won’t be able to fix your car while it’s sitting in the driveway; that’s blight (has to be in a fully enclosed space). That scrap metal you keep in a pile near the garage for the next time you’re welding and just need a 2×2 square plate (or even as a temporary home before you have enough to take to OmniSource); that’s blight too. Even that old 1970s truck you keep around to do some occasional trailer pulling, drive around the fields, and plowing your driveway in the winter (you know, the one that hasn’t been licensed for 10 years); that’s blight.
None of this stuff hurts anyone and it’s all practical for life out in the country. It’s Wheatland Township! We don’t have much, but we make due with what God gives us, and so long as we’re not hurting our neighbors we live and let live.
If you’re trying to solve the problems of old houses that are literally falling in on themselves, then keep it simple and find a way to deal with just that (although I think there are current health and safety codes that deal with these issues). Don’t let the state lawyers con you into becoming a pawn for the Federalists just because all the other townships are on board.
sounds like they’re trying to establish an HOA, next thing you know you’ll be getting notices about weeds and leaving your trash can out! 😉
Where’d you hear about this, Marcus??? Where can I get a copy??? I will definitely vote against it, if they give us a choice, but some of that stuff they just put into law and don’t even ask what we want….
Yeah i don’t think we get to vote. I got a copy from dawn
That’s usually the way it is… If it’s something we will object to, we get no vote… Not that I have too much setting around, but that’s not the point.. It’s our property, we paid for it and we pay taxes on it and we insure it, so we should be able to do what we want to with it. It’s not like we have any close neighbors, out here in the country, who are going to object to some stuff setting on our own property… The good old land of the free!!!!!Ha Ha
Just means someone will have to sue to get the law proclaimed as against your rights if they make it a law. With a secondary complaint that they didn’t ask the citizens. Oh, and I bet you’d be able to (now) do a petition and hand a copy to them saying don’t you f’ing do it. Make this a law and your entire community will come down on you.