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Wacky Florida

Good ol' Florida. You can shoot kids for walking down the street with Skittles, but you'd better not leave your pick-up truck parked in the wrong place while you're doing it. That would be unsightly.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/25/2766034/coral-gables-zoning-board-pickups.html

The real estate covenants are a hoot. Lime green front doors are A-OK...but eggplant??? Don't even THINK about it!

That's just one personal observational experience in a central Florida development outside the oddly charming but stiil bizarre little city of Sebring...No purple hues were allowed on any houses. They actually had allowable front door colors...and bilious pastels were highly favored.

One town is highly restricted...Longboat Key. Commercial signage is extremely limited...and retail is well tucked into landscaping. And yes...it's a Republican stronghold. Happy with regulations they are...
 
What ons has to do is find creative ways to get around these idiots. When I was living in the D.C. area the code enforcer came around an cited me because the paint was peeling on my garage which I used as a workshop. I was procrastenating on what color I wanted to paint it and I guess I didn't act fast enought for him so he cited me. So to piss him off I went out an got the colors that were on the Garage and as the citation said I had to place a potective covering on my garage, os I put a protective covering on the garage (one coat). Well when he came back 30 days latter he told me that I had to put more than one coat of paint on the garage. I pulled out the citation and showed him were he noted a protective coat and that I followed the citation to the letter. He walked away shaking his head. That fall I finished the paint job on the garage.
 
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