Palin's have built a 6' fence ON TOP OF a 6' fence to block a neighbors view. Are some people above the law…?
courteously Is it OK to allow the Palin’s to keep their mega-fence to block the neighbors view, in direct non-compliance of the neighborhood zoning ordinances? Apparently, her present 6 foot tall fence suddenly isn’t tall enough!
Her home, on Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Alaska is hardly "in the middle of nowhere" as Bristol testified last month during her mother’s hacked email trial in Tennessee, and is instead located in a lakeside residential community in the city of Wasilla, AK. The Lake Lucille Inn is nearby. The lots in her neighborhood have 10 foot side-yard setbacks, so it can hardly be considered "rural" with houses only 20 feet away from each other all around the lake. The area and it’s residents are subject to CCR’s and zoning ordinances (just as the rest of us "mere mortals" are), and it seems this fence may be just a TAD too tall, according to the City of Wasilla Building Code:
http://www.codepublishing.com/ak/wasilla.html "Section16.16.050(19) Appearance. The proposed use may be required to blend in with the general neighborhood appearance and architecture. Building spacing, setbacks, lot coverage, and height must be designed to provide adequate provisions for natural light and air."
This new neighbor just happens to be a famous book author, and is now working on a book about Madame Palin. In fact, Palin speculated on her Facebook page (‘natch…) that he’ll be spying in Piper’s bedroom window, and watching her do the gardening while wearing skimpy summer clothing. Hey, she said it – you just can’t make this kind of stuff up!
So, she and Todd decided to build a mega-fence (local zoning ordinances be damned). Can you imagine the nerve?
Then, in a brilliant move to attempt to show how intrusive HE’S going to be, and how much HE will invade HER privacy, she has actually published A PICTURE OF HIM on her Facebook profile sitting on the far side of HIS deck, facing AWAY from HER house, minding HIS own business. You know… to show how inappropriate HE is for whatever it is HE might or might not do at some time in the future… maybe… you know, like taking a creepy spy picture of HER that she doesn’t know about and then publishing it online to a hostile audience and asking for comment. That HE could possibly sink that low, couldn’t HE. Some people… I tell ya… can you imagine the nerve of THAT GUY?
Should the city of Wasilla require that the Palin’s fence abide by the building code? Or is preemptive fence raising a reasonable way to deal with a "book-author-neighbor-that-you-have-no-control-over-what-he-says-about-you," perceived threat OK?
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That would be a a "book-author-neighbor-that-you-have-no-control-over-what-he-writes-about-you"…
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17 Responses
logan
31 May 2010
John 15:20
31 May 2010
wow! Libs really are scared, fearful and jealous of her.
Retard
31 May 2010
If I were her neighbor, I would be quite happy with a fence that high. You don’t want any of those superstrong retarded kids jumping over and beating innocent people to death, do you?
Maudie
31 May 2010
Doesn’t bother me a bit. They should then build a moat complete with drawbridge. What do you care?
No More Compromi
31 May 2010
Let’s hope she surrounds herself completely by a 30′ tall fence and never is seen again.
TarKettle
31 May 2010
I don’t blame Palin for trying to keep her neighbors from spying on her while she’s trying to make outdoor porn videos.
Democracy, it ca
31 May 2010
do you really care?
should Al Gore a spokesman for Global Warming and claiming sea levels will rise 20 feet in the near future be allowed to buy a 9 million dollar house right on the beach?
charlie in mex
31 May 2010
Sounds like something you should take up with the zoning commission. Other than that i have a neighbor with 8 foot hedges call on them too please. The max in my area is 6 i believe and its infringing on my rights or something.
Rush is Right
31 May 2010
I think she should have simply burned the house down that this clown rented instead of building a fence…with him in it would have been fine with me.
Baroccoli
31 May 2010
If the fence was approved ahead of time, then it’s ok. As far as the rest, who cares? You are getting waaaayyyy too into this.
thorcorn
31 May 2010
She also has a liberal stalker living next door.
mason prophet
31 May 2010
All republicans are above the law remember Nixon? that goes twice for the queen of republicans.
Liberalism has a
31 May 2010
Sometimes coding ordinances are changed to accommodate privacy protection. Ok so let me get this straight. We have a Palin-hating author who’s deck is 15 feet from the Palin’s living room window and he’s already been spotted looking into their house from his deck and can be considered for possible stalking charges. He’s been sent there to spy on the Palin’s and write a book about the family. So the Palin’s decide to build a fence so the perverted author can’t look into the house and YOUR big concern is the zoning ordinance?
Danny
31 May 2010
As a Libertarian, I say if it is her property, she should do what she wants. To hell with government codes.
Sean r
31 May 2010
So she wants to build a fence for privacy? Big Deal.
I would not buy a house on less than 1 acre personally and never in city limits for just that reason. If it is your property I believe you should be allowed to build whatever you want on that property as long as it is not posing a physical threat to anyone on the outside of the property line.
Maybe if you had someone watching you and your family from 15 feet away you may have a different perspective on things
M
31 May 2010
The particular code, Section16.16.050(19), refers to buildings. The Palin’s fence would not fall under this section, but, it would fall under Section 16.33.030, a section involving landscaping requirements.
That particular section refers to fencing requirements, stating that a screening can be a fence,a berm, or a berm on a fence. The Palin’s fence appears, from various photographs, to be a fence on a fence, which is not allowed under municipal code. The code also specifically states that for buildings of varying height, tree plantings may be required. The Palin’s property is taller then the rental property occupied by the author, so instead of building an extra tall fence on a fence, the Palins should have planted trees…
thejas
31 May 2010
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!1
It would be hilarious if they are made to take it down!
But seriously, I would be a little freaked out if he moved next door to me in the same circumstances. That’s a little bold of him, to say the least.
BTW, I am in no way a fan of Palin.