[TheForge] Small shop questions

[Jerry Smith]

         These days it's zoning and school taxes that control what you do 
on your property. Your neighbors have the "Not In My Yard" mentality as 
well as the city fathers who want everyone to conform to some ideals that 
don't always make sense.
         Your schools want more money to better the schools, then with 
better schools your property value goes up, and then the schools get more 
taxes from you. So lots of people seem to want everyone to have  nice new 
car, not a pickup truck sitting in the driveway, and no loud banging come 
from some out building.


Jerry

At 07:20 PM 8/13/2004, you wrote:
>Andy, I don't know if it's the environmentalists as much as the
>property-values types.
>Mostly in my neighborhood (very scenic, too) you can't do stuff cause it
>might knock a few bucks off the price of the place down the road, which was
>likely a shack when it was built but is now worth a bazillion bux.
>Then of course there are the people who build a half-million dollar
>"environmentally friendly" house and then complain about the unobtrusive
>little shack with the dug well and the outhouse next door, but enough of
>that, it goes on and on...