alt.energy.homepower

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> Not directly and not yet. History shows that the more power a government gets
> the more it wants. There's a national news story about a guy facing jail time
> because he failed to get the proper permits to "build a fence, a retaining
> wall, a patio and a few concrete columns to decorate his driveway"
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> /news/articles/
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> Who would have thought that could have happened 15 years ago?

I don't know what you think has changed over the last 15 years, but I think
you are wrong. I have been a homeowner for perhaps 35 years, and I can tell you
that the above could have happened for at least that long in some jurisdictions.

In some areas, Building & Zoning regulations have real teeth and are
mercilessly enforced, and in other areas they are virtually nonexistent.

It just depends.

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> Again I as you to look around you and see how far things have gone in the last
> 10 years.

I don't see any great change.

Vaughn