York (PA) to ban indoor furniture used outside

[The Straight Story]

York to ban indoor furniture used outside
That means no more couches outside, officials said.

York, PA - When the sun finally emerged from the winter clouds Wednesday to warm the streets in York, Judy Cargona wasn't about to miss it.
Grabbing a dining room chair on her estranged husband's porch, she sat against the railing, chatting quietly with a neighbor while she waited for her daughter.

Similar indoor furniture -- assorted chairs, sofas and one dining room table -- adorned the porches up and down South Pershing Avenue where she sat. It's never bothered anybody, Cargona said.

"If they have it on the porch, it shouldn't be a problem at all," she said.



http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_17522126

[Dappleganger]

1. One commenter wrote...

"THANK YOU for protecting us from the menace of indoor furniture!!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[PoliticAverse]

2. Next they'll make it illegal to hang your clothes on a clothesline in the front yard... n/t

[ejpoeta]

5. some places do have that i believe.... places with those home

associations. wonder how many of those members of the home association are against the unions... i know it isn't exactly the same thing... unions protect workers from employers.... home associations protect neighbors from things like lawn signs and clothes lines.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. "wonder how many of those members of the home association are against the unions"

What an asinine thing to say. Some of us live in those communities and have no choice but to be dues paying members...and it sucks.

[ejpoeta]

17. sorry. i never thought that people living in those places didn't

like the association. i apologize.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. It's okay. Sorry I was harsh. Where I live, because of the lack of

zoning (Houston, TX), most neighborhoods are part of an HOA...and they get out of control with their power, and I have fought with them a billion times. The majority of the people in my neighborhood want to overthrow the board.

[ejpoeta]

23. sorry to hear that. I think I wouldn't like it either. People telling you

what you can put on your own lawn or what color you can and can't paint your house. I hope you guys can overthrow them.

[Blue_Tires]

21. they have that in a LOT of neighborhoods already

some HOAs won't even let you have a small garden, either...

[Dappleganger]

24. Our HOA doesn't allow any clothes hanging, period.

But we violate that on a regular basis, lol. Neither of our neighbors to the side of us care and we don't ever leave anything out for long.

[Angry Dragon]

3. "our inspectors are entrusted with a certain amount of common sense."

It seems that does not carry over to the council

Just go to your neighborhood furniture store and get a note from them allowing you to use the furniture on your porch

[PoliticAverse]

9. "common sense" means enforcing rules only on the poor and powerless... n/t

[Javaman]

4. The patio furniture mafia has to be stopped! nt

[TwilightGardener]

6. What about rattan and wicker? The lines are blurred--IS IT INDOOR OR OUTDOOR??

[The Straight Story]

7. And what about inflatable chairs and palm trees?

Or inflatable dolls....

[TwilightGardener]

11. Indeed. And what about wooden furniture? If oak/pine, it's indoor, but if teak, it's outdoor?

[jberryhill]

8. Finally

We cannot endure as a society that allows indoor furniture to be used out of doors.

I applaud this important contribution to the betterment of mankind.

We can only hope this extends to all of those bathtubs that Cialis users have been leaving all over the place.

[Angry Dragon]

10. need the tubs for outdoor sex

[jberryhill]

12. Only on approved outdoor sex furniture

[enlightenment]

13. Boulder, Colorado did that years ago.

Apparently to stop the college kids from cluttering up the yards of their rentals.

[fizzgig]

14. my town did that years ago

i live in a large college town and the ordinance, like boulder's, was targeted at the college kids.

[Modern_Matthew]

16. Petty. There are bigger issues to be tackled. nt

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. So where do we stand on this issue? Obiously we will have to firmly pick a side

and make sure the republicans and nut jobbers will be comfortable with the other side.

I'll go first. Even though this seems like an attack on poor people, it really truly is a reasonable ordinance. Especially in these times where properties get run down and abandonded and there's junk everwhere. This will enable the city to go and clean it up if the property owner does not.
That's fair.

Will someone argue that indoor furniture is less costly than outdoor furniture?

It's reasonable and fair. Go York. Clean up those moldy sofas.

[old mark]

19. K&R- We have that law here already. The reason is simple-outdoor furniture

is more fire resistant than indoor furniture.

2 years ago, there was a drunken 35 year old man who walked up our block at 5AM, and set every piece of furniture he could find on fire, including the wicker love seat on our front porch. A neighbor getting ready for work saved everyone's house on the block by dragging out blazing loveseat off the porch ont the sidewalk, and calling 911. ALL the houses have wooden porch roofs and are all connected-1920's Philly type row houses. He could have burned every house on the entire block.
He started over a dozen fires that morning, including one that threatenes sleeping infants in a house a block away that has an old sofa on the porch...it started the wooden window frames on fire and destroyed part of teh first floor of the house while the kids were sleeping in the living room. The asshole responsible spend several years in prison.

I was in the kitchen making tea and missed about 90% of the whole thing, bu twe certainly pressed charges on the guy.

So there is a very good reason for this law.

mark

[apocalypsehow]

20. My HOA covenants require the exact same thing, and I'm glad. This keeps people from plunking a couch

on the front porch, or a recliner on the back deck.

It's not only a matter of aesthetics - that kind of furniture was not made to sit outdoors, and poses all sorts of other problems when they are.