That building is ugly as hell. No paintjob is going to improve it.
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 wonder if they had to get a permit for other work to be done on the building and the city used that as an excuse to bring the paint job up to code.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.
City of Starkville : Unified Development Code
starkville.municipalcodeonline.com
I think the funniest thing is that they're letting him keep the bright purple awning, which is objectively the most garish color in the whole facade.
I read through the Unified Development Code and the things it talks about needing pre-approval from the Architecture Review Board are things like facade material, roofing material, and roofing slope.
Well the daycare building has been there forever too. Although I think there was an ownership change a few years ago, it used to be called Mighty Oaks and it changed to Empowerment Station Academy. I think the decision to paint the building was made fairly recently.
Another reason to tax land and not improvements. Don't give people a tax break for having older ****** buildings and don't penalize them with extra taxes for improving the building. Why we penalize behavior that improves the city for others is beyond me.
Ive read that this approach would help reduce the housing shortage because people would be incentivized to more completely/efficiently utilize land they own. Thats an interesting idea for sure.
You could do it lots of ways, but you would be taxed on the value of the land as it currently is zoned, not on the value it could have if you had permission to change uses. But yes, if you had a single family dwelling in a zoning classification that allows multifamily or mixed use and that area shoots up in value, they would pay more in taxes unless they had some sort of exemption or unless they set the value assuming the current use was the highest and best use allowed.
Holy shnikes, I undersold Queen Mary by 9 years.
I really do hesitate to ask... but what does this mean? From what I've heard, those crazy right wingers are usually more nazi than communist, so I have missed something. I just want to keep my dictionary up to date.
I recognize that there's a difference between nazi and communist, but damn if I can ever remember what it is, because they sure look an awful lot alike.
well, you did .03 better than Troy McLure.
That's new construction. Typically anything that has been permitted by the city previously is exempt from new ordinances. BUT if you apply for permit to do renovations, etc they can make you bring other things into compliance. The only other thing that would allow them to tell the business owners to repaint is if they painted after the paint color ordinance went into effect and the city never did anything about it at the time.
They basically are. They weren't on right and left wing because they were at opposite ends of the spectrum, they were on opposite sides because they were competing in the same lane. Socialists will claim Nazi's weren't really socialists just like communists will claim the USSR and China and Cuba and where ever weren't really communist. But their basically the same. That's why Antifa (which is basically communist) can unironically dress up like jackbooted thugs and beat up on people that disagree with them politically and claim they're somehow not fascist.
True. Both like to tell everyone what to do. There never really has been a true communist country, just totalitarian ones labeling themselves socialist or communist. This the confusion.
To put it in Monty Python terms, they're the Judean People's Front vs. the People's Front of Judea.
Sounds reasonable for the town to do to me. And all he had to do was google (or use your favorite search engine) "earth tones" and see what he comes up with. Bright yellow would not be one of the returns. Granted, daycares need to be bright and happy for the kids, but there are limits.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.
But the main thing to remember is the blue building doesn’t look trashy, the daycare does.
Basically any group can devolve to where they in effect only exist to enrich themselves by using state power to take from others. Fascists use state power to take from disfavored (minority) groups and reward traditionally favored groups that they consider superior, with the goal of further enriching that group above all others. Communists use state power to take from (former) elites and (nominally) reward formerly oppressed groups, with the goal of eliminating the gap between them. Neither respect individual rights or due process, but prefer outcomes that favor their group despite the merit of the action against the individual.
Except she really can’t. Starkville is a “weak mayor” setup and so all the alderman have all the power.
I’m laughing, because I tell everyone Mayor Mary has the style and tastes of a Soviet planner. It’s absolutely awful.
