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Another revenue enhancing gimmick by the city

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From the last council meeting...

 

-- Hill also said he and the Muscatine Police Department are working to enact an ordinance starting for winter 2010-11 that will fine habitual offenders who shovel, push or snow blow their property snow into public roadways.

A $50 fine is expected after a first warning, Hill said, with the police department being the department to issue the fines.

 

Yet their plows can come along and push snow into our driveways and block our sidewalk access to the streets, but we can't put it back were it came from.  This just pisses me off.  It like the fining of graffitti victims.  How petty can one get? 

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Well opie, ive said it before we need to vote for a whole new council...........this current council and BOS have outlived their usefulness...........

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I agree with you, but have always said the ones we need to step up and lead us are too smart to do so. 

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"Yet their plows can come along and push snow into our driveways and block our sidewalk access to the streets, but we can't put it back were it came from.  This just pisses me off." 

 

I'm not so sure they have authority to block other's legal access like that. Not sure where that would be found. I know they have done it forever.

 

Just a thought...several groups of residents banding together and filing many small claims suits against the city for the time/materials or costs to pay others to open your right to enter/exit the public streets. "Snowball" them with claims.

 

Then maybe they would have their plow drivers use directional plows to plow straight past a drive, leaving only minimal snow, then turn the plow to dump the snow to the curb between driveways. It does not have to be piled across driveways anymore. They make directional plows and equipment to prevent such things.

 

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