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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Holy Over-regulation, Batman!
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:46:00 -0400
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On 2025-04-17 7:24 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> 2025-04-17 4:32 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I was just watching the latest episode of Tim Traveller, this one
>>>> featuring an exotic chateau in southwest France:
> 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Vx-7pfzLE [5 minutes]
> 
>>>> I was astonished to discover that, in France, you need the government's
>>>> permission to paint your front door a different colour! (He's not clear
>>>> which level of government needs to give consent.)
> 
>>>> Call me crazy but that seems like a massive case of government overreach
>>>> to me. Why on earth should any level of government be able to forbid you
>>>> to change the colour you paint your own door?
> 
>>> There are massive restrictions on property ownership, and the property
>>> is owned subject to easements, air rights, mineral oil and gas rights,
>>> building and fire codes, zoning, CCRs, etc. Members of a condo/co-op/
>>> homeowners association do not control the outside of their units, like
>>> door color.
> 
>>> If there's a historic district, then building facades must be maintained
>>> to imitate whatever historic period they are from. In the northeast, for
>>> instance, there's a certain off-white color that everyone is expected to
>>> use on the facade because that color was most commonly used, allegedly,
>>> when these buildings were built. In truth it's because there's an
>>> expectation that that's the color without regard to actual history nor
>>> the color the building had been painted in for significant periods.
> 
>>> Now, it's possible to live outside a homeowners' assocation and historic
>>> districts and without building codes regulating this but it's hardly the
>>> case that these restrictions are unusual.
> 
>> The video said that the chateau is NOT regarded as an historic building,
>> even though parts of it date back to the Middle Ages. Presumably then,
>> the need to get a permit to change the colour of your door is at least
>> pertinent to the entire locality if not the entire country. Seems
>> excessive to me!
> 
> I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that these restrictions
> in law affect a great many home owners.

Can we agree that many of these restrictions are unwarranted and 
excessive and should be struck down?

-- 
Rhino