From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 6, 2026 at 10:00:06 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701   wrote:   
   >> On Jan 5, 2026 at 10:05:01 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""    
   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  BTR1701  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>  . . .   
   >>>   
   >>>>  If I own a house and I want, for whatever reason, to leave it empty for a   
   >>>>  period of time, that's none of the government's goddam business. It's   
   *my*   
   >>>>  house. I can rent it, live in it, leave it empty, let my kid stay in it   
   for   
   >>>>  free, or bulldoze it to the ground. Mam-fuckin'-dani doesn't get a say.   
   >>>   
   >>>  The government completely intrudes on your life. Socialism never goes   
   >>>  away.   
   >>>   
   >>>  Your typical homeowner, not in a homeowners' association, owns the land   
   >>>  as fee simple. This includes a bundle of rights, but not all rights. You   
   >>>  don't own your air space, which is a good thing with respect to flights   
   >>>  thousands of feet above but a bad thing when it comes to drone   
   >>>  surveillance. You don't own mineral rights, so you can't dig for   
   >>>  petroleum nor rare earth elements.   
   >>>   
   >>>  Let's say you want to use your own land to its highest and best use. Say   
   >>>  there's a major transportation facility nearby and your land might be   
   >>>  desireable for commercial/industrial use or multi-family housing. But   
   >>>  your land is zoned single family preventing you from redeveloping it.   
   >>>   
   >>>  No court ever ruled that deliberate downzoning by the municipality or   
   >>>  county is a taking. It should be.   
   >>>   
   >>>  Mamdani or not, you are not free to do what you wish with your own land.   
   >>   
   >> I said house, not land.   
   >   
   > Let's say the house isn't building code compliant. You may be denied   
   > permission to live there during renovation. They can slow walk building   
   > permits and raise irrelevancies during inspection or even shut the work   
   > down. They can add so many unnecessary expenses to the project that it's   
   > too costly to perform the work.   
   >   
   > There are communities with appearance review codes.   
   >   
   > Rent? You may need a permit, and short-term rentals may be denied since   
   > the onus is on you to prove that the short term traveller isn't there to   
   > have a very loud party or harm the neighborhood.   
   >   
   > Demolition? No permit; your house is historic.   
      
   Which is exactly the kind of fuckery that shouldn't be legal under the   
   Constitution. You're making my point for me.   
      
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