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Post by autumnmist on Feb 4, 2020 12:51:01 GMT -8
sarbar, OMG - the King County officials must have gone to the same municipal management seminars or training that the staff in my city attended! Actually, I don't think they've had any guidance whatsoever beyond the city mandates. I do see justification though for not removing large evergreen trees, but if the county officials were diligent and did some investigation, they could have determined that the tree came down naturally. Sometimes I'm glad that regardless of whether I made a contribution in life through the jobs I've held, or in other ways, at least I haven't had jobs where I interfered or meddled with other's lives.
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Post by cweston on Feb 4, 2020 13:11:04 GMT -8
I live in a rural area with very few code and zoning restrictions. But we live on a large reservoir, and our property abuts the "reservation": a narrow strip of land around the whole lakeshore that is owned by the Corp of Engineers.
One of the big no-nos is cutting hardwood trees on the Corp land. (Cedar is predominant in this area, and they allow cutting cedar because they are essentially weeds in our ecosystem.) The fine for illegal hardwood cutting is allegedly $1,000 per tree. But it is still a fairly common practice: a lake-front property owner who cuts five large oak trees between their house and the lake has probably added $5,000 or more in value to their property by improving the view, so it happens regularly.
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Post by johntpenca on Feb 4, 2020 13:17:58 GMT -8
Doncha love thread drift?
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Post by alaskaskeeter on Feb 14, 2020 20:10:50 GMT -8
I grew up in New Jersey. Then grad school and jobs in Maine, Michigan, Utah, New Hampshire, Idaho, Montana. Each state had some nice aspects of living their in terms of outdoor recreation.
I've lived in interior Alaska for the past 27 years. Now that my wife and I are retired, we could move anywhere we want. I don't think we will do that until our 70s.
I like sugar snow and cross-country skiing. I like skijoring I like when the neighborhood facebook posts "The lights are out" (Aurora Borealis) I like that the Fairbanks International airport is 20 minutes away. I like that we can see hundreds of miles of wilderness outside our window. I like the jump from winter to summer with all the snow gone in a week due to 18 hour daylength I like to watch the garden grow faster than imaginable with 24 hours of sunshine. I like 10-day wilderness canoe trips. I like wilderness period. I like that there is no income tax, no sales tax, and a dividend check for every state resident. I like that I can drive to Denali National Park with no stop lights or stop signs. I like big halibut and big king salmon. I like that I get a free hunting and fishing license when I turn 60. I like that I get a substantial property tax relief when I turn 65. I like that my neighbors slow down and wave when they see me backpacking the local gravel roads.
I don't like the short days of December (less than 4 hours) I don't like the low light of December (the sun barely skims above the Alaska Range to the south) I don't like the long and expensive flights to visit family anywhere in the lower 48 I don't like the smoke from wildfires that can be dense for weeks in some summers. I don't like the mosquitoes of late June/early July. I don't like the high expense of food, electricity, fuel, etc. I don't like that many internet vendors will not ship to Alaska or charge to ship more than the item for sale.
I think I could list contrasting likes/dislikes for all the states I have lived in.
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Post by bradmacmt on Feb 16, 2020 14:09:58 GMT -8
Would still like to hear from the OP...
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Post by cweston on Feb 16, 2020 14:25:10 GMT -8
Would still like to hear from the OP... FWIW, I think of the OP of each thread more like as a conversation-starter. Where it goes from there is unpredictable. And that's a feature, not a bug.
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Post by bradmacmt on Feb 16, 2020 18:32:25 GMT -8
Yeah... I’d still like to hear from the OP.
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Post by rebeccad on Feb 17, 2020 1:13:19 GMT -8
sarbar , OMG - the King County officials must have gone to the same municipal management seminars or training that the staff in my city attended! Actually, I don't think they've had any guidance whatsoever beyond the city mandates. I do see justification though for not removing large evergreen trees, but if the county officials were diligent and did some investigation, they could have determined that the tree came down naturally. Sometimes I'm glad that regardless of whether I made a contribution in life through the jobs I've held, or in other ways, at least I haven't had jobs where I interfered or meddled with other's lives. Actually, having grown up in that area, I have to say that the restriction on cutting large evergreens is stupid. They get tall, they get brittle, and they become dangerous. Presumably you can get a permit to cut one, but it’s kind of stupid to need to on your own property. In any case, trees grow fast up there. I think those rules come from too many Californians moving in, with the CA mindset about trees (there are few places in my adoptive state where trees grow like weeds, as they can in the PNW).
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