Editor:
The city evidently got some bad press over the gentleman staying in a trailer in a private citizen’s backyard, so their answer is more restrictions, more ways to fine people and more ways to show their arrogance.. Every time you pass a code, zoning law, ordinance, etc., that keeps ordinary citizens from helping their less fortunate friends, relatives or neighbors, it’s an attack on all of the citizens and our freedoms. Perhaps you’d rather have these people sleeping on benches in the park, in cars or doorways. That’s not what our country was formed for, so elected and appointed flunkies could restrict people from using their own property as they see fit.
Your first reaction to this will be I want no restrictions. Not true. Restrictions are to be for safety, not someone’s idea of the perfect neighborhood. In your attempt to please others, you end up hurting the most vulnerable in our society, and when that person is a veteran, then you become nothing more than a non-caring public official or employee and should be voted out of office or fired.
Catherine Spencer
Cortez
