The City of Paris needs a HomeOwners Association
IF Paris, which once was “The North Star of Texas” really wants – as it claims – to ‘clean up Paris’, it should form a Homeowners Association (HOA), which can take rule enforcement to the next level.
A HOA is needed, as the city will not enforce ordinances concerning litter, grass and weeds, boats and RVs, inoperable vehicles, fences, and yards full of unsightly (strange and ugly) junk. The mystery being that if the city will not enforce ordinances, why have them?
If we’re not using the ones we have, why not turn them over to a HOA for enforcement?
Uh … forget about the “strange and ugly” bit – otherwise, the population may be greatly reduced. And one or two of our Paris Chamber’s Directors would be among the first to be forced to vacate not just Paris, but the NE Texas vicinity.
So let that sleeping dog lie . . . But there should be ordinances enforced about bathing; at least, once a month.
Flowerbeds won’t regulate themselves, and we don’t want to get started on those trash cans left out overnight.
IF the city is going to do as it has promised over recent decades, it needs to start a HOA – one that can use military precision, when and if necessary. After these years of unenforced ordinances, Paris needs to aim for a disciplined, picture-perfect community.
Instead of giving taxpayer’s money away, the PEDC ought to fund the HOA effort.
By a big majority, this chamber’s directors voted to recommend asking that HOA employees don fatigues, a utility belt with handcuffs, a bug zapper, a firearm, a ballistic vest, breath mints, bean-o, and an approach to every violation with a “take no prisoners” attitude. (See below poster of enforcer-type and equipment.) To assure a resounding success, this is likely the only road over the next three years.
IF HomeOwners are trembling at just the thought, good – so be it.
In transparency, one of older Directors, voting against the HOA, said he, “can see a time that if I just forgot to mow for a couple of days, I’d be doing push-ups in my front yard, and I cannot do push-ups anymore.”
We assured him that while residents might scramble to comply, praying their grass grows no higher than the regulation three inches, they would be building new muscles saluting their new governmental unit.
Some folks are now saying that instead of having more government, they would rather do the cleanup work themselves.
They’ve paid taxes for 25 to 50-years or longer to allow city councils and management to litter it up.
You really have to appreciate the rate of return when investing in government.
This is, of course, a continuing development of a story that is a half-century in the making.
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