@Pink_Meeces The Neidermeiers are clearly just engaging in the huwite tradition of exhausting every single option. At this rate they might have to get themselves a plated up bulldozer.
@JNiedermey33251 I have half a mind to have a guerrila-shoveling-party while you arent looking that you know nothing about. I will "vandalize" and steal your sand and you will be powerless.
Unelected state bureaucrats are destroying our family home of 50 yearsâmaking it illegal to do basic and necessary maintenance on our own property. And because of that, we are going to lose our house.
Yes, you read that right.
Let me explain from scratch, because itâs honestly hard to believe.
Every year, a few tons of wind-blown sand pile up against our familyâs home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. For over 50 years, once a year, our family has hired a crewâat our own expense, with a permit from our cityâto move that sand back onto the beach. Same basic routine maintenance our whole life. It also keeps the public beach-access path next to us clear and safe for everyone. Nothing was ever harmed, and it cost the state nothing.
Last year, out of nowhere, the Oregon Parks & Recreation Department (OPRD) went over the head of our own city and denied us permission to keep doing it. Nothing about the sand changed; only the permission did. Overnight, cleaning the sand off our own property became illegal.
So we fought this overreach in court. Hereâs what happened:
OPRD had a proper way to challenge our city's approvalâthrough Oregon's Land Use Board of Appealsâbut they missed a deadline and then simply asserted their own separate permitting authority over the âocean shoreâ.
The state argued that THEY, not our local town, get the final say, and that letting us clear it is bad for the beach, despite not one local complaint in 50 years, plus 50 years of approval from the town. We argued the obvious: this is our property, our town approved it, and weâve done it responsibly for half a century. In April, an administrative judge sided with the state. The simple, maddening reason we lost: a judge gave the state bureaucrats, not the local town, the benefit of the doubt.
Weâre appealing in a court of law, and believe that the law is clearly on our side. But hereâs the trap: an appeal takes YEARS. Our house does not have years. The sand climbs higher every monthâroughly 10 feet of sand has now buried our seawall, lower deck, and staircase. If this grinds through the courts at the stateâs pace, we may âwinââbut on a home thatâs already gone.
And theyâre doing it on the taxpayerâs dime: OPRD reportedly faces a $14 million shortfall, yet spends taxpayer money to block privately-funded maintenance that costs the state nothing. For 10 months theyâve stalled. It feels less like a fair process than a strategy to make fighting cost more than a family can bear.
Thatâs why we need public attentionâand right now. Two minutes from you actually matters. We want people to reach out to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek by name because OPRD answers to her; by law, it is appointed by the Governor and serves at her pleasure. She sits on top of the agency doing this and has the power to step in. She simply has to careâand enough public pressure gives her the reason.
How you can help for free and for two minutes of your time:
- Go to https://t.co/EcQGyq87zZ and send Governor Kotek the pre-written email (one tap).
- Or, repost this.
- Or, if you can, donate to the legal fund on the site. My mom put her entire retirement into fighting this in the courts because this house means so much to our family. She is pretty much tapped out now.
Also, to address two things many people have told us, that I have to answer:
âJUST DIG IT OUT! The fineâs cheaper than the lawyers.â
Love the spirit, but itâs wrong. One: itâs no cheap fine. Digging without permission means up to $1,000/day in city penalties (a misdemeanorâjailâs on the table), PLUS up to $10,000/day from the state, they can make us haul the sand back, hit us with double or triple damagesâand it instantly blows up our appeal. It wouldnât save us. Itâd end the fight, in their favor. Two: weâre doing this the RIGHT way, because we ARE rightâwe wonât hand them the excuse to call US the criminals.
âYOU BUILT ON A BEACH! Whatâd you expect?â
This isnât the ocean reclaiming a foolish house; itâs maintenance, no different from clearing vines off your walls. Nobody says, âLet the blackberries swallow your house; thatâs nature.â Clearing what nature piles on your property is how people have lived in homes since forever. The sand was never the problem; the state just made it illegal to clean it up.
Lastly, this is bigger than us. If the state can overrule our own city and criminalize basic upkeep on private land, every homeowner on the Oregon coast is next. Weâre just the first house the sand reaches. We will not be the last.
Please visit https://t.co/EcQGyq87zZ to help.
Hey Mark,
Why do blacks starve if Whites don't feed them?
Why don't the blacks, like, grow their own food and stuff?
Are Whites OBLIGATED to feed blacks? Forever? No matter how many blacks there are? No matter if we are out of money for ourselves?
Why?
My father, who has been consuming New Atheist content since its inception in the 1990s, just admitted to me that consciousness could be part of the underlying fabric of the universe rather than simply a byproduct of cells interacting with one another in a particular way.
Heâs the kind of person I use to gauge where things are going with a certain segment of the public. Well-educated, credentialed, PhD holder, part of the university system for 30 years. Heâs a living embodiment of the âliberal eliteâ if there ever was one.
Vibe shift incoming.
Dead Charlie Kirk is living rent free in leftists heads everywhere.
Case in point, for half a decade I lived next to a giant statue of Lenin in Seattle. Despite the fact that I knew relatives who suffered horrifically at the hands of his party, I didnât care. The statue was just part of the scenery.
People make one statue of a guy who was murdered for talking to people in college and leftists canât stop fantasizing about defacing it.
Young Washington is a good movie. I highly recommend seeing it. (The only people in the audience were heritage Americans).
However, I was disappointed that the movie did not show how Israel helped to form America.