Do you see why we have to legislate common sense?
We have a resident who is selling mattresses and other stuff in a residential neighborhood. Why does this resident think he can just sell things out of his house or have a permanent yard sale? Because Staff gave him a license. The story goes that this staff member will be "disciplined" and that the city is trying to work it all out. In the meantime, this has been going on for a year. All we do is complain and get nowhere.
Rescind the license and give the guy his money back. If he does it again, one big gigantic fine. Voila--over and done with. What is the damn problem?
Lynn, if they do it YOUR way, it sounds to me like a lawsuit waiting to happen. The City made it's bed and now they have to sleep in it. The lIcense will expire, then all they have to do is refuse to reissue it. Would you like ANOTHER million dollar settlement?
ReplyDeleteYeah, ya never know in this city--people like Willard get away with $1.6 and staff issues illegal permits. If the permit is illegal, it should be rescinded. OK? Because the city makes a boo boo does that mean it is uncorrectable in your mind?
ReplyDeletePeople sell stuff all the time, weekly yard sales, go to 3rd Ave North between D and E Streets, every weekend they have huge yard sales there, is this legal?
ReplyDeleteBlight is the number one problem in this city and the leaders to not answer to it, they don't respond to citizens or care what we think, Maxwell is a big liar, he said he would address all the blight, now he has turned his attention to other things, blight and slums are all over the city again. Amaroso too overlooks it all, there must be some reason why that when they get in office they see a real reason to overlook all the blight, because for 20+ years it continues on this same track getting worse and worse and the CRA who is supposed to do something about it too, they never do anything either. We need to vote out the politicians every two years and abolish the CRA now!
Speaking of slum and blight, where IS the commissioner for District One, the guy who ran on an elimination of slum and blight platform 3 years ago-- missing in action, any kind of action.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the poster at 1:10 pm. You really are a mean and judgemental person. The individual on third ave is struggling to survive like so many of us. This person is not bothering anyone, simply trying to put food on the table. Id'd like to mention that this person also picks up trash from 3rd ave to lucern monday through friday every single week. I've witnessed this individual putting other peoples trash out when they have forgotten. We should thank this neighbor not critisize them.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand he is helping. On the other hand he is hindering. Let's enforce our code. No one cares if he is trying to survive. The law is the law or it should be. Do you want to live in a stink bomb forever? You moan about property values and then you look the other way because someone has some financial problem and wants to have yard sales any time he chooses. They need a permit for a yard sale and code should go around and ask them to produce it. So go ahead and thank him for putting trash out. He's also putting it out to sell.
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ReplyDeleteOne! this is not acceptable on any level and I have personally reported this 3 times and emails to the city.
This is not a now and then thing it is an every Saturday and Sunday event and sometimes there are 5 sets of mattresses on the lawn.
This is on the corner of 6th Avenue South and Wright Drive. (My Street!) I'm tired of neighbors calling me to yell about this and tired that Lake Worth has not taken care of this issue. Do you want this in your neighborhood?
Fact the people who live there are very nice however they have a complete disregard for our code and rules for the city. From an out right produce stand to now mattresses. On a major artery street which has almost caused accidents at an already troubled cross street.
I love the fact that people are finding ways to make a dime but he can easily enough rent space at the market next to the high school and sell there.
This again is EVERY WEEKEND Code Department and City Manager Michael Bornstein and how many times do we have to tell you about it!
Sincerely with no malice just need everyone to get on board and be treated equally. If I can't sell mattresses every weekend in my yard neither shall you. Lake Worth Start getting things RIGHT!
Robert Waples - President of ROLOH
Lake Worth allows TWO yard sales per year,and you must go get a permit to do so. The permit is free. The sheriffs dept should be doing their job and asking to see a permit at every yard sale in the city.I'm REALLY SICK of being called MEAN because some of us are tired of people breaking the law!Thats what is so sick about this country today. ACTIONS don't matter as much as INTENTIONS do!!!I just say screw Lake Worth. I'm going to water my yard whenever I want to . I'll go on wellfare and get a couple of hundred bucks a week under the table by selling junk in my driveway every weekend.I'll put out yard waste whenever it suites me. I'll rent out rooms in my house and still get my homestead exemption!Screw this damn city!! FEEL SORRY FOR ME BECAUSE I AM A NICE PERSON!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBlight is a problem, but our city overlooks a lot and allows and forces the poor immigrants to live in dumps and does little to make these areas nicer or enforcing laws on landlords to improve living conditions. People say some are mean and judgmental, yet the same people who say this ignore someone when they say hi to them. Go figure. I think we should love all the illegal immigrants too and stop judging them, they are human trafficked here and are used and abused and foreigners of a new land here, treat them kinder and teach them how to live here, do it with love, learn to love and forgive and not hold grudges and see other peoples points of view. Do we want law, do we want laws enforced? If it were up to me we would not have any borders in the world and anyone could travel like birds any where they wanted to without a visa and passport. Blight is created by man just like borders, they use them to create division and control, humans are not really free, we do it to ourselves. We are mean and judgmental to ourselves too, we love to accept and allow mediocrity.
ReplyDeleteI know, some people can be so mean and judgmental, even hateful, toward the illegal immigrants, but they are struggling too, even if they broke laws to come into this country, they do not deserve that treatment, times are tough. We need to stop being so mean and judgmental toward them. We all just need to be nicer, kinder, more loving, and forgiving of all, accepting all more, we can all work together to fight this blight, we all care or should anyway.
ReplyDelete@9:57. We force immigrants to live in dumps? I believe that they made their choice. The dumps should be coded and the slumlords run out of town. No one forces anyone to live in a dump. Usually the property gets worse with these people who urinate on bushes and hang their clothes on them. If they are illegal, they should be run out of town anyway.
ReplyDeleteNice letter here Mr. Waples, I agree, the people who want to have weekly yard sales or daily for that matter need to bring their stuff to one of the two local flea markets close by, it just is not right and we need to uphold our laws for all people. The is the problem with blight, they overlook a lot of the laws and the blight is out of control, they don't want to enforce or seem too harsh toward all the immigrants and their areas so they overlook things and then they wonder why those areas are such slums and ghettos, but our city just is not enforcing all the laws for ALL people. It is too bad for the illegals, the poor and the struggling, for the lady whose husband is a big alcoholic and drunk and can't provide for her family so she has to sell stuff each weekend in her front yard, law are laws, do we want them or not for ALL?
ReplyDeleteDo we really want the Polish Sheriff to bust yard sales? Like they dont have enough to do, this shoulds be taken care of Code Enforcement.
ReplyDeleteFor all of you people who say the city looks like dump, ride down east of Federal, these neighborhoods have never better in 25 year I come here in Lake Worth, never better!
Polish Chris
The problem with this city(I grew up here 45 yrs now) is the schools. The rich people that want Change (sound familiar?)living east of federal can afford to send their kids to private school. The middle class that uses public schools have fled to the acreage and such to put their kids in good schools. You now have the poor (west of dixie) to contend with THAT'S ALL FOLKS!
ReplyDeleteMost parents want good educations for their children. One huge problem we have here is the large immigrant population and parents who only speak Spanish at home and can't help their kids with school work.
ReplyDeleteIs there a school system somewhere in the USA that has successfully dealt with such a situation that Lake Worth can model itself after? Everyday i go to work and see a Guatemalan mom pushing a stroller with 4-5 kids following her to school, I have another mom and daughter (maybe 10 yrs old) digging through my recycle bin every Mon. Let Capitalism take care of this? Education is the only way I believe to stop a cycle. P.C.
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