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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Jun 24, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Roger Austin wrote:

>  In Raleigh, city inspectors can come on your property and cite you
> for an almost infinite number of things and the council can force
> you to make repairs or changes. [...]
>
> We as citizens
> have asked them to do these things to protect our property values.
> The rub is when they do it to you rather than your neighbor who
> has a dump in his back yard.


That's exactly right!   The relationship between city governments and  
the people who live in the cities goes bad with the government is  
seen as "them" instead of an arm of the collective citizenry.  In my  
experience the more one becomes acquainted with the mundane facts of  
running a municipality the more sense their decisions make.

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