Dallas orders homeowner to take down treehouse

alexander troup, says:

Some kid's have the right to grow up mean, because they were met with mean...what is a tree house anyways.....grow up big brother....A/T,...Lets build a fort...

Travis Bush, says:

Who does he think he is? A homeowner and obviously one who has to put up with stuffy rules imposed by people who live inside a bubble, while directly outside their little bubble is abject poverty. Of which one is quite certain they could care less about. The least of the homo-owner association's worries is a silly tree house, but one imagines that they are just as douchey as Avi and his merry gang of whiners.

Maybe it was the only tree he had in his yard that would safely support a tree house, which one assumes is the only reason you would put it in a front yard. This is just more proof that the "associations" are nothing more than a bunch of snobs and people who want to meddle in the affairs of others.

Pavel Lishin, says:

Clearly the solution is to buy an antique treehouse from somewhere else, and claim that it has historic value.

Jason Rice, says:

And well, yes, it IS a museum.

Travis Bush, says:

Alex..my bet is that it was someone who lived around there...but you are right. I saw it was the city, but just figured it was someone with nothing better to do but call 311 and start in complaining. Mea culpa.

JRice..a museum you say? Kind of like a ghetto Smithsonian maybe...

Jason Rice, says:

::ghetto Smithsonian
Nah - historic districts are museums. Plain and simple. This stuff happens all the time in ... gasp... Downtown Plano

And how'd this article get classified as "Africa" ? More Neo-django fun? Or am I just not cool enough to get it.

Travis Bush, says:

LOL yeah..it was knee jerk. Already admitted that one Captain Obvious, but thanks for playing anyways....I simply cannot stand to see the life sucked right out of everything.

In your mind, homeowners associations may be necessary, but more often than not they come up with a bunch of rules that only serve the purpose of telling other people what to do on their own property. Furthermore, I wouldn't live in a neighborhood where people made it their business to tell me what to do. Sure fire way to get tossed off my property right along with your notion that I needed your rules in the first place.

Pavel Lishin, says:

dallas_diner - I'm fine with homeowners' associations in theory. I just hate reading stories about them being hijacked by some holier-than-thou jerk and using that position to play sovereign.

It doesn't happen often, I'm sure - the news will report a HA abuse story before a story that reads "Homeowners' Association doing fine, draws no complaints". But still.

Also, I still don't understand why a tree house must be in the back yard. But what do I know, I'm a furrnur.

Scott Miller, says:

Damn. When I read something like this thread it makes me feel very fortunate to have grown up when and where I did. Another place in a very different time.

Some of my best childhood memories are from my best friend's awesome treehouse his dad built him in the giant tree in their front yard.

alexander troup, says:

Let see if the Mayor and City Council have any kid's or tree house's in their area....HAAA.A/T, It takes one to know one, beside's arrogance is the cause of death...blind arrogance..

Pavel Lishin, says:

You know, I bet that child-loving jerk even dares to park non-historical cars in front of his house sometimes. Some people should just be shot, you know?

Rick Yost, says:

rinea- "Then again, it's the guy's own fault..." -I agree. And your dad communicates just like I do.

Jason Rice, says:

Frankly, if you look at the pics, the tree has been so cut back as to be a tad of an eyesore. This was possibly the final straw to someone.

The utility companies just demolished a whole street of beautiful trees in my neighborhood. So that might not even be his fault.

I do like his construction. Coupla nice tricks I'd steal if I had a big enough tree.

Scott Doyle, says:

*Coupla nice tricks I'd steal*

Keep it to yourself, heathen!

Can't believe this guy was so quick to take down the treehouse, btw. On top of a classic opportunity to make a huge media ordeal of "the man" throwing his weight around, just seems like something too trivial to bother with in the end.

Travis Bush, says:

Didn't look finished to me Scott...he probably had the choice of spending more money on it, paying the fine and then raising hell..or just nix it. One imagines paying property tax on a "museum" is rather costly..especially when they keep building over priced town homes so dangerously close.

And for you knobs that think he would complain if it were next door..do you have children? I doubt it, because I would be delighted if I didn't have to build one myself. You intellectual peens who can't figure that one out should stick to restaurant reviews and complaining about said subject around here.

Robert Kelly, says:

Scott, its easy to write off as trivial many things, until they happen to you. Inane rules and selective enforcement are never too small or seemingly innocuous- you be the next victim.