Marry or move
Black Jack MO has a housing code limiting the number of unrelated people in a single-family home, and they're using it against unmarried parents with kids.
Whether a municipality is using law as a moral enforcing stick is secondary to this point: by what right do they tell anyone what they might do with their property?
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Posted by: pls9
Posted on: May 24, 2006 03:38 PM
Interesting that it happened in a place that shares a name with game of chance.
Posted by: Wendy
Posted on: May 24, 2006 03:38 PM
I'd seen this before, with the earlier case. This actually makes the second couple in a month or so facing this...
I've shared with two professors who specialize in zoning code and my old boss down at the planning commission. I think it's important we keep Ohio from getting any stupid ideas like this...
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: May 24, 2006 03:58 PM
Actually, I suspect a lot of OH municipalities have codes like this. We can't have a dozen unrelated Mexican illegals living in one house, can we? As I said, it's at core a stupid idea, whether used at the behest of green-space,no-overcrowding urban-planner types or pro-marriage fundaMENTALists.