Yeah I wonder what the permitting process was (if any) when it was originally painted. I don't really see too much objectionable for the surrounding area here:
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Wonder if that was the problem... the business painted without getting approval beforehand? I don't know, just speculating - the city obviously wouldn't (shouldn't) make them repaint if they gave an approval previously.
Correct, I live like two minutes away from this building. It’s fairly isolated. There’s an old house next door on one side and another business on the other side, across the street is the back side of a little strip mall type place. Within a short walk of a public park. Not really on a main road or anything. My daughter actually went to daycare there briefly when she was first born.Yeah I wonder what the permitting process was (if any) when it was originally painted. I don't really see too much objectionable for the surrounding area here:
Empowerment Station Academy · 732 Whitfield St, Starkville, MS 39759
★★★★★ · Child care agency
I'd almost wonder if this isn't something personal & petty between the business owner and someone on the board. Both entities really seem to have dug in over... not much.
I guess I need to clarify. The "so" is that the article said a purple building is against the city ordinance. My next sentence held the important phrase "...it could get out of hand...". I'm not sure what else needs to be said. The town could get even uglier quicker if you let every building owner pick out any random colors from the color wheel. Do I really need to explain that part further?
Yes the multicolored buildings all jumbled up together are horrible. Imagine the whole town looking like that. I am guessing that particular development was built 20 years ago and thus was grandfathered in, before this neutral tone ordinance. Again, just a guess.
And throw in dorn advocating for limited government
Fair enough. I think I've just become cantankerous in my old age about being able to do what I want to with my own property. I'm lucky to live in a neighborhood with a very relaxed HOA (though I'd prefer to not have one at all), but that hasn't always been the case. The argument I always hear for having an HOA is "well, you don't want your neighbor to paint their house purple, do you?" and my response is always "who gives a 17?" If my neighbor wants to paint their house teal with pink zig zags, then I'm kind of ok with that. It's their house.
I mean, I agree with what you're saying. I don't have a strong opinion on any one buildings color. But each town has to decide at some point what they are going to be. I am guessing that the elected who voted for 'neutral tones' in their minds were thinking "classy" rather than "boring". I know that's what Mayor Mary thinks in Madison, but personally I hate the corinthian columns and flowery bannisters and all that shiit. I would prefer a little variation and creativity among buildings. But she was elected 34 years ago (!), so she gets to decide.
Those bright colors definitely look awful and take away the quaint charm of the dilapidated, blue metal shed next door that is the gem of the neighborhood. *Daycare owner needs to repaint building a neutral color, aldermen decide
A childcare center on Whitfield Street can keep its purple awnings and blue doors, but its owners will have to paint the building a neutral, earth-toned color, the Board ofwww.starkvilledailynews.com
Going after daycares because their building is too yellow.
I'd rather live by a purple and yellow daycare than I would a Cane's that looks like a bank.
They just can't get out of their own way... Can they?Daycare owner needs to repaint building a neutral color, aldermen decide
A childcare center on Whitfield Street can keep its purple awnings and blue doors, but its owners will have to paint the building a neutral, earth-toned color, the Board of
Going after daycares because their building is too yellow.
There is a theory that the poltical spectrum is horseshoe shaped.
Think I found a rebel lurker, boys. He wants to live beside a daycare - and no true Sixpacker would pass up the opportunity to live near a fried chicken joint.
Of course. You wouldn't expect the rage warriors here to take into account facts, would you? Just blame government.
Just a weird battle to pick for the BOA. But that group has been picking battles that are a waste of time for as long as I’ve lived here.
From what I read in the article and in the Development Code, it's not that you have to get approval to paint a facade beforehand, it's just that it has to fall within the Unified Development Code for Starkville, which says "The primary facade colors shall be low reflectance, subtle, neutral, or earth tones. The use of high intensity, metallic flake, or fluorescent colors is prohibited.", but doesn't provide a palette of what's included in that. The owner even said, it's not clear what's included and the board couldn't provide a palette. If you Google 'earth tones', you'll see greens and yellows and they don't look far off from the street view in the Google Maps link dorndawg posted. I feel like 'subtle' and 'neutral' are pretty subjective.
starkville.municipalcodeonline.com
That's my objection. It's not that they're being heavy handed, it's that they're being heavy handed in the dumbest ways. You want starkville to be nicer, stop adding requirements on people that are doing improvements that should be born by everybody (e.g., sidewalks). You want starkville to be nicer, spend some money and do the things you want (sidewalks and underground utilities would be a good start) instead of trying to dump those costs on the people actuallyh trying to make it nicer. The sign ordinance was a good thing, but it's another example of starkville putting out a mandate that falls on property owners unequally because they like to pretend that imposing that cost is materially different fro a tax.
Yeah, some of the bridges and retaining walls downtown are a hell of a lot harder on the eyes than that daycare. Maybe they can claim it was painted by some 16 year old and it is art so they can just 17 all the way off. If I am the owner that is the very first thing I get an explanation on.
Have you heard about the Whataburger with zero orange on it that we're getting at the old Backyard Burger?
Local laws and ordinances do not trump the Constitution. I served 23 years to defend our Constitution. Those who don’t like the freedoms it provides should work to amend it. Good luck with repealing the First Amendment.
I'm not sure where to start explaining, but I assure you this is not a First Amendment issue. If anything, possibly a 14th Amendment Due Process but even then, there is a law and the process seems to be being followed.
