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      1. Covenants, conditions & restrictions. Think of them as zoning rules passed by a homeowners association or put in place by the developer instead of the county or municipality. They govern what you can and can’t do with your land. Ideally, they protect your property values so that no one leaves junk cars up on blocks in the front yard, but in reality you often have small-minded busybodies on the committee and they can fine you or even sue you for things that are legal but break their rules, like displaying the flag, having Christmas decorations, installing too large a mail box, using the “wrong” color hose, etc. In many suburban developments you have to get permission from them to build a fence, paint your house a new color, install a shed or a swing set, etc.

        Limited general restrictions might be OK — like no houses smaller than X number of square feet (which is usually intended to prohibit mobile homes), all building must be X feet back from the road, you have to be quiet after 10 p.m., etc. But some might crimp your style by saying you can’t park your RV on the property unless it is in a garage, or that you can have horses, but not goats.

        Before you let your realtor rush you into signing when you have found the “perfect” place, take some time to read the CC&Rs. Not only do you have to be able to live with them, but it will tell you something about the community where you are planning to move.

  1. caravan, Hah, it’s just the shriek of the week, what will happen is they will all turn themselves in at the proper crossing point and be dna swabbed, fingerprinted, photographed, separated from their kids, and allowed to melt into society. And things will get slightly worse.

  2. Contracts, Covenants and Restrictions

    In other words, you can’t do squat to YOUR PROPERTY unless it passes muster of the Home Owners Association first.

    1. Such as:

      Article II. Residential Covenants
      2) … No fence, walls or shrubbery shall be commenced, erected, placed, altered, or planted on any tract without approval of the Arcitectural Control Committee

      Caveat emptor.

  3. A lot of cameras at intersections are used to sense vehicles to operate the traffic lights. They don’t record anything. They replace the old detection loops that used to be in the pavement.

    1. @Don,

      Yep. I’m aware of those. The streets were recently redone in a community beautification project and all of the traffic lights were replaced during that project. The traffic systems were changed to more modern ones where a camera trips the light function. There are at least four cameras at every intersection, each one pointing in one particular direction of the intersection. Those cameras are mounted on the highest point of the traffic light, either on a vertical pole in the middle of the extension arm or on the vertical member of the support pole.
      These new cameras are of a completely different design. While the traffic cameras rely on height to gain a complete field of view of the intersection and the body of the traffic camera is longer than it is wide or tall (typical security camera type weather package), the newer cameras are wider than they are long or high. While the body is odd shaped, the lens is still in the center of the package (leading me to believe that there is a whole lot more in there than just a camera. It’s obvious that this new camera is not part of the traffic system. It’s mounted right on the cross pole, looking right through the front windshield of your car. It’s hard to avoid it. If you lower your sunshade and raise your head to the point where it can’t see your face, you have a hard time seeing very far down the road. There is a limited number of those cameras and they are only on two intersections. The original traffic cams are still there as well.

  4. What the Cato article does not include: whether or not you can opt out of the biometric photo at the DMV. I have found 5 states — out of about half I’ve checked so far — DO allow you to opt out.

    The best is New Hampshire, where you can request that your info also be removed from the database. Wisconsin has a form for religious waiver (you have to request it from the local DMV clerk, who will call Madison to confirm — I talked to Madison on this one). Washington has a form, Oregon has a photo opt out, and so does Pennsylvania, however you must request the opt out form from your recognized church leader and the state will determine whether or not they will grant the waiver. I recommend highly relocating to a state that allows the photo opt out, because that is the ONLY grass coming up through the concrete called global ID (yes, that’s no exaggeration — go look online for “global ID”).

  5. I see a situation on the border to where if only one illegal to be immigrant pulls out a gun and fires a shot ,that it will turn into a shoot “at your own will” heyday! But we all have to remember that this is an invasion by people who may not be friendly towards us, as they want what we have and will do whatever they have to to get it.some of thesefolks might end up dead because of their actions.Be prepared and ready.Keep your powder dry.

  6. Facial recognition archives from driver’s license photos in New York may not be exactly what you think. Many, many people have driver’s license photos that are twenty years old, or even more.

    Some people look just like they did twenty years ago. Most don’t.

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