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    City Plan Would Curb Garage Door Opening

    GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - Some residents of this upscale Memphis suburb say ordinances have gone to far. The final straw may have been rules proposed about when garage doors can be opened.
    Among other directives, the city codes would tell homeowners to open their garage doors only when entering or exiting or for "short periods of time" for cleaning and maintenance.

    "I'm in favor of reasonable codes, but I think some of these things go to extremes," said resident Robert Scallions.

    Because of such criticism, officials in this town known for a sharp eye for community decorum have agreed to give the proposals another look before a final vote.

    Jean Wallace said she fears town regulators could come down on her because the street address on her house is spelled out in words. The rules would call for numbers only, from 4 to 6 inches tall.

    "That seems very strange, especially when the house is 30 years old," Wallace said. "The builders put them up, and they used to always be like that."

    I think next month they are going to pass a law allowing the police to stop people and make sure that they have flossed.
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    anal cavity checks anyone, gotta make sure we're all "behaving" in bed now. Can't see the justification to garage door laws...not like home values go down because of the "neighbor's garage floor isn't clean enough" logic.

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    People have to start refusing to live in "neighborhood association" and towns that practice these kinds of laws.

    Then maybe when the insane rules are denoted as a property value killer, they will straighten up.

    It only gets worse, for in order to feel productive, the association/council needs to generate more and more rules. This is the fundamental problem with government.

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