K4YZ wrote:
wrote:
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The neighborhood organization was against the ZONING change
from "R" (pure residential) to "R1" (residences plus
aparments). The original plan was for "senior citizen
apartments" which we neighbors did not like.
Why not? You're a senior citizen ;-)
He's a citzen.
There's not a whole lot "senior" about him.
No, Steve, Len is definitely a senior citizen. He's way past retirement
age.
And "forcing" Lennie to live near other's his age would be like
"forcing" him to get an Amateur Radio license...It might "force" him to
realize that he is not the Alpha and Omega of his realm.
Nobody's "forcing" Len to do any of those things. He's free to move if
he doesn't like how the neighborhood has changed.
My point about the whole zoning thing is *not* that Len or his
neighbors
did anything "wrong". The point is that they resisted a change that
others
wanted, even though the people who wanted it told them it was
"progress"
and would be a good thing for the future.
Yet Len heaps abuse on those who resist a change in the Amateur Radio
Service rules, even though the people who want the change say
it is "progress" and will be a good thing for the future.
As for the claim that those of us with licenses aren't affected by
those
changes in any significant way, note that those who already owned
houses in Sun City aren't really affected by the zoning change of R to
R1
in any really significant way.
Of course Len and his neighbors could have bought the land from the
failed developer and thus protected themselves from future development.
Let's see...if the houses cost a half million, the land for each house
might
be worth a hundred thousand. That's only 4.4 million for 44 houses. Say
5 million with all the costs. Divided among how many neighbors?
The rest is easy:
1) The neighbors pitch in and buy the land, to be held by a corporation
formed for the purpose.
2) Developers are invited to submit proposals for development.
3) When a developer comes up with a proposal that meets all the
neighbors'
requirements, that developer is allowed to proceed, subject to a tight
contract
that only turns over title to the land when all conditions are met.
4) Profit!
Yes, a two-
story house or apartment would block my VIEW that I enjoyed
for over 30 years here.
So you think your "right" to a VIEW is more important than
people having a place to live....
So...We get them to raise a privacy wall around the new buildings
and let the mural artists go to work...Then Lennie can have whatever
"view", however myopic, he wants. Maybe one with no antennas and no
faces over 40?
No mirrors?