Thealexa Becker wrote:Mr. Juris,
What ordinance was updated? I'm just curious because it seems rational to me that there would have been an existing ordinance about yard sales, presuming that is what you were referring to.
Thealexa
What Councilman Juris meant by his post was, once again I come to the discussion empty handed but with barbs
and jabs for a residents. I do not need to give you people any reasoning for anything.
There are existing laws on the books for garage sales and they have worked for decades, but for some reason,
and there is always a reason Kevin Butler felt the need to make it really tough on people making ends meet.
REASONS And How Rules Are Made - lets look at them.
Dog Park Barking - It ends up the reason Rocky River went to court over Lakewood
Dog Park is one man's wife was so bothered by the dog barking that she made her
husband's life hell with her complaining. He then got his whole street involved, when he had
three people on the street that said they could kind of hear the dogs, and would actually
would put their name on something he went and forced, through the squeaky wheel
method to get Rocky River to waste thousands of dollars on a frivolous lawsuit. (The truth
was, cars going by the man's house were louder than the dogs in the park)
Car Control - For years residents on Riverside were hoping for a lower speed limit, as once every 5 months we
have a terrible accident, usually but not always associated with some form of impairment. Well one of them
happened in front of the Planning Director's house, this is back when the word planning actually appeared in the
title, well next day Lakewood crews were out changing traffic patterns, striping the street putting up cones, etc.
Since that time we still average about the same number of accidents, and no one can explain the striping. Ironically the ex-planning director has had two accidents at his house
and one resulted in death since his striping job.
Regionalism - Our last mayor was against regionalism, he often spoke about it, this mayor claims to be against
regionalism, and has often spoken against it. Well the last mayor becomes the County Executive and is the
leader of the region and guess what, He is now a firm believer of regionalism, and his hand chosen mayor is
now too. (This phenomenon is also known in some circles as "smelling the seat." As in a person speak that they
want to look into city managers while they are on council, and the second they start looking like they have a
chance for being mayor (smelling the seat) they decide that "we are lucky right now and do not need a city
manager, but when they are ready to retire will once again suggest it to the city.)
Closing Parks/Taking Away Residents Legal Rights To Assemble In Public Spaces - A worker says to his boss after spending nearly an hour scraping graffiti off kids slides, "Boy we
really waste a lot of time on cleaning graffiti, we need more people, more money or close the park." His boss
who has been sending workers out of the city between the hours of 9-5 to help a friend says, "Boy you are right
I can't spare anyone else, we are busy as all get out." He goes to council, and suggest it where it is turned over
to a committee of three. One of the three wants to investigate it, and find out "Why should we close a park in
the middle of the city if we do not have to." One of the other two has a family and is underpaid at council and
over worked in his real job and never takes the time to look. The other is just plain lazy with an ego the size
of Texas, and is known for doing what he is told, and loves signing stuff, so he never walks in the parks, and
actually says to someone, "We were told what to do, I do not have to waste time on this." to paraphrase, and votes to close it,
it goes to council, that figures (hopefully) that this committee investigated it, when told one member wants more
time, they sigh, and think "I am not paid enough for this," and vote to close it.
Yard Sales - I am figuring Kevin, or maybe the mayor, there is a person in the Mayor's neighborhood that does
have a constant yard sale. He drives around the city before trash pickup grabs bikes and stuff, and places them
in his yard operating a legal garage sale, every week with signage. Unwilling to single out just the bothersome
person, and tired of looking at the sale, feeling one man's treasure is another man's eyesore, they spend time
that could better be used for other things coming up with a ridiculous policy, that takes the actions of a handful
out on the entire city, then using their leverage and "we are all on the same team" philosophy push it through
council, and in one month we loose use of our parks, and the ability to recycle our used goods in a way that has
been around, well as long as we were able to go into parks until 11 pm.
I am not saying none of these people were not allowed to have those reasons. But I do get a little miffed when
a city spends time and effort to go out of their way to punish residents for no reason, faux reasons, reasons
they are not going to share, or councilman lie about studies and the work they did that never existed.
Speaking of Traffic, if you remember one of the reasons given by the city for taken
traffic lights down on Manor Park the scene now of at least two accidents, one directly
blamed on loss of stop light, was they could not afford to replace those two lights, finds us
now with at least one new light at Spring Garden and Detroit, which has never had traffic
problems with lights at Webb and Larchmont. The only real traffic is because of Dunken
Donuts and that is because their drive thru is on a side street not meant to handle traffic.
So were were misled to about not being able to afford them.Thealexa, I hope this helps you understand when you look at rules and regulations where they come from.
Here is a list of Loony Laws and how they came to be. Lakewood is no different.
http://www.loonylaws.com/LoonyLaws.com is your guide to finding outrageous city ordinances and silly state statutes. What is it with these loony laws? If they aren't being enforced why are they still on the books? If they might be enforced how bizarre would we be living under these loony laws? We have collected some of the more jaw-dropping legal mumbo jumbo from various sources -- print and online. .
