Carrollton FM has, in fact, suggested that our CO may need amended. That’s completely different than a shutdown. I personally have no reason to believe there’s anything nefarious there, but, one worries a bit. Hopefully we’ll stay on good ground, and get it all square up if it needs to be, but it is a bit concerning when you witness the guy next door pulling what appears to be shenanigans.
Plus our own Hatcher’s folks already feel a bit slighted…
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Interesting.
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Yeah, the Dallas Fire Marshalls are blatantly corrupt in the City of Dallas. They don’t even hide their intentions any more. This closure was nothing more than racketeering. They are likely doing it at the behest of others who have their own agendas. Not long ago they went through a phase of randomly closing legal, permitted pop up art galleries in Deep Ellum because they didn’t have the right number of extinguishers or exits or sprinklers for the “full capacity” rating of the space. Never mind that the gallery would never come NEAR having that many patrons at any given time. And of course they’d spring it on opening night and drag out the process for re-permitting for as long as they could get away with doing, often beyond the terms of the lease with the property owner.
About a decade ago I was on the board for my condo HOA when the Dallas Fire Marshall tried to declare us instantly uninhabitable because we couldn’t test the sprinkler systems in each and every unit. Never mind that we were built in 1981 before flow back valve designs were required by code and that “testing” a unit would incur flooding the entire property 20 year old water that’d been in the pipes since occupancy and then some. Our sprinklers were the melting-metal and liquid-in-a-vial release valve types in each room/space with a single, central cutoff in the middle of each building for all of the 10 units per building. Just like the law required in 1981. The Fire Marshall insisted we needed to retrofit all sprinklers in every unit to modern requirements with dual pipes and flow-back test valves. It took us over 6 months and an expensive lawsuit to get them to regain sensibility. Our attorney made us aware later that a slimy developer wanted our complex for land value only and wasn’t willing to buy us out at fair market price. He wanted the city to condemn us and get the complex for pennies on the dollar.
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A developer driven by greed? Say it isn’t so!
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Sounds like Jerry and Exide Battery
And every housing developer in our backyard Raymond - is there a valid reason that single family homes are platted as close together as they are today in DFW other than greed? The “houses” going up on Lakeside in Flower Mound are “interesting” among the hundreds of apartments…
For an idea of comparison - google the town of Double Oak Tx 75077 and using google maps take a look at the “progress” in the later developments surrounding Double Oak.
If you are happy living ten feet away from your neighbor or close enough to hear them fart and belch - please disregard this.
That’s why I live where I live… We’re on .4 acres in a very quiet, upscale area where there are no HOAs and no zero lot lines in our section of the city.
Ridden through it a few times on longer bicycle rides. A stark contrast to Flower Mound’s 'burb-ification. It may soon end up being an anomaly as the surrounding areas are divvied up into subdivisions with 1/8 acre - or less - plots and the trend towards apartments and condos accelerates.
Oh how some of my neighbors crave a HOA so they could enforce their yuppie sensibilities on everyone else. The facade would be in the name of worshiping at the altar of property values, but the reality of it would be control, conformity, and finally giving their building passive aggression an outlet.
- Grass hasn’t been mowed in the last 7 days? Fine
- Re-roofed your house in a color not pre-approved by the HOA? Foreclosure
- Installed an outbuilding? Foreclosure
- Parked a car in your driveway? Fine In the street? Huge fine
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“Property values”, hah! As if property values aren’t inexorably rising regardless of the grass height or how uniformly brown the fences are in a neighborhood. It’s all just another way for corporate greed to get money from people who wouldn’t otherwise give it to you.
The same, I’m sure, applies to anything property-related in Dallas proper.
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Which is why my wife and I looked long and hard for this house. HOAs are the tools of petty little people and we have to deal with enough pettiness elsewhere in life to NOT want it around home.
I built my 600sq ft electronics workshop in the back yard and you’d never know it driving by. We added onto the house to build Robin a study off the master bedroom and only had to deal with city permits. That’s the way life should be. HOAs are shit to deal with and I won’t give them a dime.
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We have an HOA, but they don’t do anything other than hire landscaping, as far as I can tell.