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Mo. residents upset by order to move lake homes

Who does the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission answer to?

Uhhh the government bureaucracy... So that entails the chairman of the FERC Jon Wellinghoff, the House of Representatives, the Senate, other agencies, the executive branch which is the biggest branch in the gov, various companies/corporations, and lobbyists...

So how does the bring Obama into the story?
 
I live on a lake where you're not allowed to build any kind of structure along its banks by law, and we're ok with that, the issue here is that if they don't enforce the zoning restrictions then it gives carte blanche to those who haven't done so yet to start building whatever they want.


yeah, how dare anyone do what they want WITH THEIR OWN PROPERTY!!!!!


j-mac
 
Here in America, it's not right to zone someone out of their home. An act such as that smacks at freedom and liberty; I don't give a **** what party is involved.


Even in America, if the zone was there before the home, let the buyer beware!
 
Even in America, if the zone was there before the home, let the buyer beware!


But that is not the charge in the story is it? I mean I could be wrong, and will take another look, but I got the feeling that these were now claims that were not there when residents bought this land, and built these homes some 35 years plus ago....


j-mac
 
The problem with the lakefront property arose when Ameren Missouri, the power company that owns the project, applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a new 40-year license to operate the dam. A required shoreline plan noted that some structures had been built over time on some of the utility's property for the dam, in many cases when Union Electric Co., an earlier form of Ameren, was the owner. How the property was sold was not clear. But the utility had no problem with many of the structures.

FERC objected, however.

So let's see, the prior owner of the energy company had no problem with it, sold the land and now some bureaucrat decides that the letter of the regulation supersedes the rights of the property owner, and the electric company has no problem with the structures built there.

This is not a common sense ruling by this bureaucracy, it is heavy handed, and wrong headed.

j-mac
 
When you been living in your home for 30 years, it's damn near impossible not to blame an over-reaching government, then the government comes in tells you that you can't live there anymore.

Reminds me of what the government did to the indians. Is this the beginning of the reservation system for all Americans?

Zoning laws don't trump the Constitution, which guarantees us our property rights.

Glad to know that. In that case, I have the right to build a house right in your front yard. I have a friend, who is Cherokee. I will tell him that he can put a tee-pee there too. :mrgreen:
 
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