A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the East Mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built a new home. The new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Mark Easton, mad about his lost view, went to the city to make sure they enforced the lower roof line ordinance. The new neighbor had to drop the roof line, at great expense.
Recently, Mark Easton called the city, and informed them that his new neighbor had installed some vents on the side of his home. Mark didn't like the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate.
When they went to Mark's home to see the vent view, this is what they found...
Is that for real?
Awesome!
Though, one does wonder. . . how's teh resale value on a fuck-you house? :-)
I don't know about the great expense. It's a great expense to design and build a house to code. When you have an urban environment graced by a beautiful mountain, its views should be protected. And they are. The builders should have followed the codes.
So instead of recourse to his architect or contractor, this guy designs a big "Fuck you" sign that projects to his neighbor and everyone above. Pretty childish, and not very neighborly.
(My comment was triggered because I worked in City Planning 20 years ago-- often staff was getting guidance from city council on zoning issues, sometimes progressive advice that really had the community's interests at heart. Ridgeline protection was one tiny issue a friend worked on for a couple of years. I've seen the other side of the coin too, brute power used to enhance the politician's holdings.)
Though I agree with
I sure hope this is true :)
so do you know how it was settled? Did the people have to remove it?
Stupid neo-fascist, goose-stepping, cookie-cutter Mor(m)on sheep deserve that kind-of crap! :)
This is why on a whole I hate people and I am glad I work with animals LOL
You'd think they'd understand tolerance better than anyone.
But they don't.
They now have a mob mentality themselves here because they are a supermajority.
so I peeked at your LJ - wow I want to ride that roller coaster too!!!!
Could Easton have been prickish about this? Possibly. His neighbor is still a dickhead who's either too used to getting his own way, or too arrogant to find out if he could legally do so. I'll bet that if Easton had been anything but an officeholder, people wouldn't find the vents so funny. Hell, if Easton were an older lady, there would probably be people lining up to burn the neighbor's house down.
Also, while people might want to burn the guy's house down for flipping the bird to an old lady, the would probably be less likely to do so if she had previously forced him to make thousands of dollars of alterations to his house just so she could see over his roof.
Utahthe "Ninth Level of Hell" grand? (Now you know just one more reason why I call my little Hamlet that... I fucking hate Utah, with extreme hate!)