Sacramento County ban on home “major auto repair”

hemi71x said
Auto Repair

Let me give you my 2 cents worth on this topic if i may.
I live in a what i consider to be, a nice neighborhood, here in Rancho Cordova, (Sacramento) and rent a duplex, that i reside in.
Been here at this place for 8 years now.
When i was fully employed, i was a professional, full time, wrenching auto mechanic, to earn my living.
In all the time that i have lived here, i NEVER brought home any side jobs, to work on in the driveway, to piss off any of my neighbors, or go afoul of the rental agreement that i signed when i moved into this place.

My last neighbor that i had in the duplex, to the right of me, turned that place into a junk yard, before he got evicted by the property owner for not paying the rent.
Now the recent people that moved in tried to turn the driveway into a heavy duty auto body repair shop, in trying to fix up a smashed Toyota.
Well, i don't want to live next to a junk yard, and turned them in to Code Enforcement, and the property owner, for breaking all kinds of city and county codes.
Personally i don't like living, want to live, where that type of truck or auto repairs are being done.
A simple brake job, or oil change ok, but nothing heavy duty.
There are other proper places to do heavy duty work, other than residential neighborhoods.

First off, how fortunate for you, that you have enough money that you aren't forced into working on your car at home. How many people have no other option? You want the city riding your grandma's butt because she needs a garden to supplement her income (which is zero after retirement), but that "invites rodents and other vermin"? Because that's where this is going.

hemi71x said
Now who would want to put up with anything like this, living in a residential neighborhood?
This is what i saw, had to put up with, when i got code enforcement involved with the next door neighbor.
Somebody moves in, and brings down the neighborhood with their unacceptable behavior.
What you see just isn't right, and a reason the city has codes to regulate something like this.

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What you find distasteful and what others find distasteful are two different things. The problem is, you aren't guaranteed happiness, you're only guaranteed the right to pursue happiness, and what you and all the other people that find code enforcement acceptable forget is, you also have the right to ignore it, move away, or accept it, and you don't have the right to tell other people how to live their lives in their own homes. Just because the city or county agrees with you, does not make you right.

But what's "just isn't right" to you is someone else's right to operate on their property, to their property, as they see fit. For some, that's the only option they have.

If you EVER wonder why California is so ridiculously expensive to live in, to the point that hundreds of thousands are homeless, look to your local ordinance book (glass house) before you say anything (throw stones). Everything in that book is costing a resident money. Everything.

Ultimately, at this time, you're just lucky that you share tastes with majority that are executing this. Again, that's not luck or planning. Just fortunate. Before you reply, think about what it means for you if those fortunes change.