We Will Never Forget

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Most communities roll out the welcome wagon for military veterans, solid families and Habitat for Humanity.
But some Morton residents don’t want that kind of riff-raff in their neighborhood. Noses in air, a petition is being circulated to protest the arrival of the first military home by Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Peoria Area. Why? The dwelling is — gasp! — made of wood, while all of the surrounding residences consist of brick.

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32 Replies to “We Will Never Forget”

  1. I guess I’m a nose in the air guy.
    Having a home built by charity on your street is wonderful.
    However, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that it be built in keeping with the rest of the houses around it.
    Because he’s a veteren, would rusted cars on his lawn also need to be overlooked?

  2. Maybe they should kick one of these snobs out of their brick home(invoke eminent domain)and move them in the patriots home.I am sure the vet would be happy with the brick one.Hell. He’d probably be happy with pool cabana in one of these ingrates backyard. Know your enemy.

  4. Seeing as it is Charity.. Do a local fundraiser to drum up the cash for the desired brick.. Pretty simple if that is the only problem with this situation..
    If its a class thing.. Then no amount of brick (short of a prison) will be enough..

  5. Putting up buildings that don’t fit with the rest of the neighbourhood is not exactly neighbourly.
    The character and need of the inhabitant doesn’t change that.
    The charity should keep going until this family’s home is in keeping with his neighbours.

  6. Gee,doowleb. Never figured you for a NIMBY.
    And agree 100%,Jay. It is a class/snob thing.Leftards pissed off they got a GOP rep.

  7. I agree, it’s not like the vet can’t live in another community, one with pre-existing wood homes.
    No disrespect to the vet, but the older community has a housing standard that existed before he came onto the scene.
    Unlike Canada of course that will stick a welfare tower right in the middle of good communities, so that “everyone gets to mix”.
    er, forced to mix.

  9. So the best solution is for the people signing the petition to spread the cost of the upgrade to make the dwelling a brick structure. This way they can show their respect for the soldier’s service AND keep their neighbourhood appearance to the level that they feel is best.

  10. I lived in a neighborhood that is having 400 rental units built in it to satisfy the need for affordable housing.
    Funny how this never happens in wealthy areas.

  13. You are thinking wrong. It is too much to ask that it be in keeping with the rest of the houses around it. If it is structurally sound and properly maintained it is no threat to your house. If you think it should also conform to your aesthetic sensibilities you deserve to have someone else come along and force you to conform to theirs. If you want to keep him out of your neighbourhood, put up your own cash to buy and own the lot.

  14. The libertarian in me would accept that you may be correct.
    It’s not saying much about Habitat for Humanity or the veteran, that the neighbours concerns are of no concern to them.
    To say your neighbour’s property values and aesthetics are of no concern, says a lot about you however.

  15. It reminds me of the dickheads that bought a “cheaper than dirt” house on some rural land close to a local shooting range that has been around for 50 years. They new full well the range was close by but within a year of ownership have launched several lawsuits to have the range shut down do to “excessive noise” along with safety issues.
    So far they haven’t won in closing the range, but have caused the range to spend over a hundred grand in upgrades and legal fees over the years.

  16. A petition?……every neighbourhood has a few bust bodies that do this sorta thang….the “75 year old widow” is a stereotype…..such folks don’t stick to their knittin.

  17. Ahhhhhhh. doowleb explained.Libertarin. Thought you guys were all for freedom of gubermint and nuisense(sp) suits,regs,etc. The socialist comes out again.Read Tooners’ comment again,and put brain in gear.

  18. Actually, in reading the article, it’s not a problem for them to do the bricks… they’re quite willing. It’s that the first they heard about an issue was the door to door petition. There’s no code or bylaw regarding brick, they say it’s a “covenant”.

  19. Seems to me that vet and his family would be better served to move to Texas, than have to live in a community full of a**holes. It’s Illinois, so you the place is crawling with Democrats.

  21. You can bet most of Morton voted for Obama. Why? Because these folks probably all think their the cream of humanity. As long as the rest stay away. That way they can feel good about themselves, without actually sacrificing any thing.
    Hows that community organizer working out for yeah?
    Soon Morton will be hosting Muslims.
    Being serious for a moment. These people’s actions did more harm to their property values in making themselves national laughing stocks than the petition.
    Instead of an order to kick the Veteran out, they should have helped pay as a community of Individuals for a brick front. Have a petition on that none compulsory action.Now that would have done them much more good.

  22. Three things:
    1- NIMBY … strictly speaking is usually a justified point of view. My back yard is MY backyard. If I don’t like something being shoved into my neighbourhood … I’ll do something about it. Been there and done that.
    2- If the Habitat organizers had their permits in place then there is no reason at all to be concerned about any petitions started by old cranks.
    3- Note that this “reporter” never bothered to get the story from petitioners … or never bothered to report what they had to say. Looks to me like just another half-assed attempt to gin up a controversy.

  23. Someone generous can volunteer to purchase the bricks and hire a bricklayer to do the extra work. Or maybe everyone in the neighbourhood could contribute to a fund? Problem solved.

  24. Get along just fine,doelap.When did you last have a block party? And BTW,the last dust-up here was when two doors down was putting up a carport. Guess who caused all the sh1t? Answer…gubermint. Funny.The pukes haven’t shown up again when they found 23 neighbours on the lawn,telling them what they could do with their stupid regs about roof slope.And yeah,it’s built of wood.

  25. Oh. And my backyard? Raspberry and blackberry bushes,300′ by 200′,which the neighbours love,and are quite welcome to help reap the crop.You should try it some time.You actually meet some great people.

  26. The complainants’ mentality is like that of busybodies who think it’s alright for municipalities to pass zoning bylaws, limit floorspace coverage, etc.
    An important rule of property rights is that they do not extend past the boundaries of your own property.

  27. 1- NIMBY … strictly speaking is usually a justified point of view. My back yard is MY backyard. If I don’t like something being shoved into my neighbourhood … I’ll do something about it. Been there and done that.
    Dude, your backyard and your neighbourhood are two different things. The former, in which you enjoy property rights, is much smaller than the latter.

  28. Doowleb is demonstrating the mindset that makes 300 yards the proper minimum distance between houses.
    I lived in the snooty part of Ancaster. I had a rare and valuable project vehicle, a 1947 Ford COE truck parked in my very large, very invisible-from-the-road, GATED driveway. Lot sizes are big, yards are hedged. People used to slow down and gawk at my house, because it looked like Architectural Digest from the road.
    I had the city inspector come to serve a complaint about me keeping “junk” in my driveway. He laughed when he saw the junk, told me who had complained and exactly what to do to evade the city regulations.
    I built a very handsome shed. City inspector came around to serve a complaint. I got a minor variance, shed stayed. It the variance meeting
    I got noise complaints when I worked on my truck at two in the afternoon.
    I got noise complaints when I used the tablesaw in the garage. With the door shut.
    One guy had a cow when I fired up the welder in the driveway. And by fired up I mean I made some sparks while welding.
    The final touch was when the neighbourly folk called the cops on me because I tried to put up a fence. Not a ten foot prison fence, just a four foot snow fence. In -my- yard.
    So I moved, rather than waste my liver cells fighting with the myriad @ssh0les who considered my property something that must be arranged to meet their aesthetic criteria, and my life something that must be lived for their convenience.
    Now I do wheelies up and down my front lawn on loud two stroke motorcycles, I weld and cut in the driveway, I have lots of spare parts and truck frames and wood and vehicles parked about the place, I have outbuildings, I have the loudest weed cutter in the universe, and a lawnmower that weighs two ton and is run by diesel. When the neighbours come around its to get my help pulling their daughter’s car out of the ditch, or weld up something that broke, or to see if I have a left handed monkey wrench.
    My interactions with the city folk are limited to running them off my yard when they show up trespassing with orange vests and shotguns. Apparently city boys can’t read signs that say “NO HUNTING”.
    My parting shot, doowleb, is that Ancaster USED TO BE THE SAME as where I live now. As kids we rode our bikes everywhere, the old man fixed his busted POS car in the driveway, as a teen I learned how to do wheelies in the front street. Every walking trail in Dundas and Ancaster that’s considered holy conservation area ground by all the busy body yuppies and greenies who now infest the place started out as dirt bike trails, and no one EVER complained.
    So really, you and the old broad in Morton with the petition need to come to grips with the concept of private property. It’s MY LAND, not yours. I get to decide what goes on there, not you. If some guy buys the field next to my place and puts up some crazy looking yurt and starts raising goats, it’s none of my f-ing business. Maybe you should mind yours, and spend less time worrying about “community aesthetics” and other BS that commie sh1t head yuppies use to push people around.

  29. The Phantom >
    I understand, and you are right, you also did the right thing by moving to where you were best accommodated and comfortable.
    On the flipside, agreed people should have the freedom to do and live as they want as noisy neighbors with yards full of junk – BUT other people should have a right to live in a nice clean quite neighborhood if that’s what they want.
    So it comes down to whose standards came first, the communities, or the individual moving into the community. In this case the community and its standards came before the vet and the Habitat for Humanity housing project.
    They could build a frame house nearly anywhere else the country or fork out more for a brick house if the vet insists on living in this particular community.
    The US is FULL of ghetto’s, run down old home areas, acreages, trailer parks and a plethora of other places for those who wish to make noise or have no living/ building standards.
    People who wish to live in quite comfortable neighborhoods with building and yard standards should have that freedom of choice as well.

  30. You got the part where I’m not the guy with the three rusty cars up on blocks and the yeller dawg lying in the dust in front of the sagging porch, right? Did you get the part where passers-by couldn’t see into the yard due to trees and hedges? I had an impenetrable thicket around the place, that’s why I bought it. Nice and private, right?
    “Community standards” are an excuse for self important block captains and hateful busybodies to make everyone else’s life miserable. Some of the f-s in my neighborhood made it a full time job, walked around with camera and clipboard like they were the manager. I have video. The guy down the street from me had a multi-million dollar house, he left in disgust because the stupid pr1cks kept complaining to the city about his -Ferrari-. Too noisy!
    In fact, there’s some utter retard in Ancaster who phones the cops to complain every time the Lancaster flies over town. I understand the cops told her to shove it after the fifth or sixth time. It was in the paper.
    My revenge is complete, however. I sold the house to a Russian guy I’m pretty sure knows people in both high places and low ones. He put in a massive renovation, and had backhoes working every day for a year. Also he put up a BIG fence. Also he cut down all the holy and blessed trees so beloved by the neighbors and put in a pool. My hated shed is now his pool cabana, and they see it every freaking day.
    The son of a beeotch down the road who kept making noise complaints and calling the city because of my truck (which he couldn’t SEE, even when he walked by with his f-ing camera, which is why I put the gate up) now has his plain-@ss 1959 brick bungalow sandwiched on three sides by construction sites, as the existing homes have been torn down to make way for gigantic Casa Loma clones which do not fit in to the neighborhood one tiny bit.
    There is no middle ground with property rights. You either have them or you don’t. Generally, we don’t.

  32. The Phantom >
    “You got the part where I’m not the guy with the three rusty cars up on blocks and the yeller dawg lying in the dust in front of the sagging porch, right?”
    Yup I got it, even the first time.
    My point was about the rusty car hicks, and people thinking their rights to live like public pigs trumps those that chose to pay allot of extra money for quite, clean neighborhoods. There are plenty of public pig neighborhoods to go around already.
    My previous comment wasn’t directed at you personally, it sounded like you lived in a snotty neighborhood that would complain about anyone or anything for the sake of complaining. That happens, and you moved out.
    There is a flipside though, and this story reads something like one to me.
    An exaggerated example would be that people have a right to spend lots of money building nice million dollar communities and not have dirt bags move in next door with a rusted mobile home on the last vacant lot available. If anyone wants to experience that, you just need to travel to most of the third world sh*tholes to see plenty of it. India comes to mind, I’ve spent allot of time there, and wouldn’t wish it on anyone, rich or poor.

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