Have the code Nazis hit on your car?

adriver said
Now that everyone knows how hard Frankie has worked to meet codes and garage his car(s?), we can all go home to our hovels with no indoor storage and un-registered vehicles.

First of all, how nice of you to assume to speak for "everyone". When were you elected spokesman? I must have missed something :roll:

Secondly. I don't know what's up your ***, and I really don't care, but, the bottom line is this: Anywhere in this country there are codes to be met. Each area has different levels of codes, and different levels of enforcement of those codes. It's your responsibility to know them. You are either meeting the codes, or your not. If your not, you are problem, not the people reporting you, or those enforcing the codes. Man up. Geez.

adriver said
In other words, if my Valiant devalues my neighbor's Hemi I have to get rid of my property because the majority has a code.
Not a perfect analogy, but an analogy nonetheless.

Frankie said
Not only is it not a "perfect analogy, it's completely off topic.
Have a car in your drive way is one thing, have a collection of parts and parts cars in that same place is another argument, completely.

adriver said
]Au contraire.
Insert un-garaged Valiant project with no registration.
Insert house for Hemi.

You just changed the criteria of your comment. Do you not understand the differences between your two comments?

Property values was introduced as logic by someone, I think.
Stay on topic Ive been told sometimes.

property value IS on topic. Property value is probably the single most common motivator for a neighbor to contact the authorities about code violations. You might not like that, but, that doesn't void the reason.

adriver said
Revenue.

Revenue would be, and, most like is, the motivator for the municipality, not the citizen reporting the violation.

I see we are now to "tell it to the judge" if you don't like it.

Wrong again, but at least you're consistent. Where all of us should be, is knowing, and understanding the local codes for this sort of thing, and understand that if you are in violation, not only are you in the wrong, but your neighbor has every right to report it, and by doing so does not become the problem, but becomes part of the neighborhoods solution.
I was reported, and I did what I needed to do to fix it. My breaking the local codes was not my neighbor's fault. :roll: It was my fault.

adriver said
]Poorly worded and arbitrary codes don't help that, F.

You're right, and bucking the system by breaking the codes, arguing and fighting and threatening your neighbors, doesn't help anything, either, especially your wallet and your temper.

If you need to buck the system, CHALLENGE it in court. Explain to your local zoning commission that the codes are "poorly worded", "poorly written", have too much gray area", "are obsolete" or "invalid", or what ever you think the problem is. Until you, or someone else, does that, the codes will remain the codes, no matter how pissed off you get at them, me, or who ever else points out that you either follow the codes, change the codes, move, or pay the fines. That's it. There are no other options.
Everything, each of those four outcomes are up to you.