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Homeowner paints house green and purple to protest Historic Preservation Commission.<<UPDATE: Homeowner wins!!>>

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Fausto

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This is hilarious.

The Avondale Estates man lost his bid Monday night to get that city's Historic Preservation Commission to approve his plan to add a rounded front stoop to a house he's renovating on Kensington Road.

Pike stewed about it Tuesday, then went to work Wednesday morning.

He called two painters. By day's end they had painted the front of the house lime green, then added large, purple polka dots.

It's quite a sight in the quiet, small town known for its tasteful residential neighborhoods.

"It's certainly making a point," said resident Karen Horace, as she lingered in her car Wednesday at the four-way stop in front of the house.
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EDIT- 5/28/03

The City Commission voted 3-2 Tuesday night to allow him to build rounded front steps on a house he is renovating in the small city in central DeKalb County. The commission's decision reverses a May 5 decision against Pike by the city's Historic Preservation Commission.
 
Originally posted by: Tyler
I take it paint color isn't something the historical preservation commision has any control over.
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that's what i was wondering. if he's protesting the committee not approving specific "improvements", how will bypassing their authority altogether get them to reconsider?

still pretty funny tho. i especially like the toilets filled with geraniums idea.
 
This guy sounds SO like me, I want to buy him a beer!!! I'm the same way; I don't take lightly to getting pissed-on just b/c some committee of old fogeys can do it. :disgust:

I'll bet he spent that Tuesday pouring over the rulebooks to see what he could get away with. Most probably, there is NOTHING in the rules about "coloration." They will ammend it though, and he'll have to repaint it.

Knowing him (and I do!!!) he'll sell it, as is, at a LOSS, just to make yet another point! 😀 Three cheers for Mr. Big B@llz!

Hip-hip-hooray!Hip-hip-hooray!Hip-hip-hooray!
 
Last year someone here in Lubbock, TX painted their house purple with black dots in protest of the no more than 2 unrelated rommate in one house rule.
 
my family got lucky on one of those historical preservation districts.
we missed it by half a block!
the house was built in 1905 i think, and all the houses in our area were built around the same time.
its silly considering our house had siding and 3 bedrooms that were added on in the 50s or 60s plus many of the houses in the HPD also had siding and added rooms.
why preserve something that isnt historical ie siding?
i believe there is a place for historical preservation districts, but 90% of the houses look nothing like they did when they were built.
 
Originally posted by: ed1564
Last year someone here in Lubbock, TX painted their house purple with black dots in protest of the no more than 2 unrelated rommate in one house rule.
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Wtf kind of rule is that??


Those polka dots are too small though... They don't look right. They should be twice or thrice that size.
 
Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
Originally posted by: Tyler
I take it paint color isn't something the historical preservation commision has any control over.
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that's what i was wondering. if he's protesting the committee not approving specific "improvements", how will bypassing their authority altogether get them to reconsider?

still pretty funny tho. i especially like the toilets filled with geraniums idea.
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There are several older neighborhoods like this that have been declared "historic districs". Basically, once they do this the homeowners can enforce rules and regs to keep out the "riff-raff". You also get stupid cases like this where someone wants to make a tasteful (I'm guessing) addition/change to their home and it's blocked for some reason. A friend of mine in Grant Park wanted to put railings on his front porch and the Hist. Committee said "NO". I mean, come on....it's just f*cking railings.

 
In my neighborhood you are supposed to submit plans on everything you change/add to your house. It is a pain in the arse and the neighborhood Nazis not only take forever to get around to you half the time it turns into a knock down battle. My dad came up with a simple plan to avoid this mess many years ago and as I now live in the same neighborhood I follow his lead.......We simply build/add what we want without ever submitting a paln. We are tasteful people and no one has ever complained about anything we have ever done. There is also a rule that if someting has been in place for over 6 months it can remain even if found to not meet the criteria of the association.
 
Good for him! I would detest having to ask someone else if I can change/make improvements to a piece of property that I am paying for!

Pay my mortgage..then you can tell me what to do. :|

Some of the homeowners associations here in Austin actually have websites that encourage you to "rat" on your neighbors...grrrrrrrrrr
 
I can't believe people can tell you what you can to with YOUR OWN HOUSE!!

I would have added the stoop without consulting the almighty committee.

amish
 
My parents live in basically the middle of no where out in the country. Some rich bitch snob who thought she could make a buck bought some land real close to where they are and thought she'd be smart and sub divide it. To live there you had to meet the "community" rules...rules like

- no clothes lines
- all cars have to be garged
- any fences must be made out of wrought iron - no chain link, pine, or plastic ones
- all air condition units must have some sort of ornamental bush or shrubbery covering them up if they are on the side of the house
- you had to build a "pit" in the front of your yard to store garbage cans...you just can't put them at the end of your driveway
- no funky colors
- ect

And she wonders why nobody is buying property.
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Originally posted by: vi_edit
My parents live in basically the middle of no where out in the country. Some rich bitch snob who thought she could make a buck bought some land real close to where they are and thought she'd be smart and sub divide it. To live there you had to meet the "community" rules...rules like

- no clothes lines
- all cars have to be garged
- any fences must be made out of wrought iron - no chain link, pine, or plastic ones
- all air condition units must have some sort of ornamental bush or shrubbery covering them up if they are on the side of the house
- you had to build a "pit" in the front of your yard to store garbage cans...you just can't put them at the end of your driveway
- no funky colors
- ect

And she wonders why nobody is buying property.
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Sounds exactly like where I would LOVE to live. If I could ever afford such a place. 😱

I'm so tired of seeing people's 3 year old dragging a 50-pound bag of trash across the parking lot (splitting the bag open on the way) then not being able to lift the bag to throw it in the dumpster.

So, Johnny Dontknowmydaddy leaves it in front of the dumpster, where it's immediately set upon by the 321 stray cats that patrol my property.

I'm also tired of seeing people's POS "vehicles" w/the license plates they remove every time they park the car, sitting out in the parking lot dripping oil/tranny fluid/antifreeze/blood all over the place.

Sorry...I get out of control. I'm moving at the end of the month.


 
Similar situation happened right across the street from me. An old couple live in this house, and the people next door got the city to cite them for refusing to repaint their house that was peeling pretty badly. After telling the neighbors and the city to fvck off, when the city finally cited them, they painted the house Barney the Dinosaur purple. It think it's hilarious, since they did it just to thumb their noses at the city and the neighbors that complained. Besides, all I have to do is tell people I live across the street from the purple house when giving directions now.
 
My wife and I have constant disagreements over neighborhood covenants. While I can appreciate the need to restrain idiots from putting "cars on blocks" in the frontyard (my wife's pathological fear), it's my property (theoretically speaking, we don't own any). The part that I can't stomach is the fact that the people who are usually involved with these decision-making committees are self-important morons who actually think their jobs matter in the whole scheme of things. If I wanted to add an addition to my house and was told I couldn't, I'd firebomb the head of the committee's house and then build it anyway.

So, kudos to this guy for playing their rules against them. I hope he wins out in the end. Avondale is notorious for some ridiculous laws and/or enforcement.
 
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