Being a Thorn in the City's Side

DRTDEVL

DRTDEVL

Mothfukle
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Austin... TX? Nope. Minnesota!
Backstory:

State changed septic laws, entire neighborhood suddenly non-compliant. Solution was to get annexed into the city (bad move on the former residents, but oh, well) in order to have sewer ystem installed.

City annexes in 2014.

2020 finds sewage construction finally initiated and completed, all in a 6-month span. As part of construction, the dirt road was excavated, and all signage was removed. Everything was put back *except* the speed limit sign (25 mph).

I gave it time, but after seeing the same diesel ricer douchebag hauling ass past my house again this morning, I placed a call to the city engineer and left a message. Here's his reply:

I received your voicemail message and wanted to reply via email to include the attached photo. All roadways within City Limits are 30 mph unless otherwise posted. This roadway would be considered 30 mph and therefore would not be posted. Also, attached is a photo of the previous speed limit sign that was faded to a point that it was not legible. We did upgrade the street signs with “no outlet” and curve signs, but we do not plan to reinstall any speed limit signs. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks

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I dropped what I was doing and fired this off in return:

The roadway *was* otherwise posted at 25 mph. If there were a better resolution in the photo, you would be able to see it was posted at 25 mph before the sign was removed.

I have attached an image from Google's Street View taken in 2014 that clearly shows the speed limit that was "otherwise posted" on 40th St NW at the time of annexation. The city's inability to maintain the clearly legible signage within its newly annexed areas should not place an additional burden upon the annexed residents, nor should it preclude the intent of the original establishment of the 25 mph speed limit without going through proper processes to raise said speed limit, which I believe involves a traffic study. As there was no traffic study conducted in our neighborhood between the beginning of construction in May and the present, I believe the omission of this speed limit posting is in error and must be corrected pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 169.14, subdivision 2 (7), as amended Aug 1, 2019, which allows the city to change the speed limit without study to 25 mph, but still requires a traffic study by MnDOT and an engineering analysis by the city.

I am available to answer any questions you may have.

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I now await a response to see how far I can take these shenanigans. I have plenty of COVID-Induced time on my hands these days to mess with the city.
 
Have neighbors fire off emails to same guy and cc each other. The city will get your sign back up.
 
Sign looks blurry but not illegible...:flipoff2:

If you have to be stuck with complying with the city code so should the city. Be interesting to hear their response.
 
Sceep said:
So you think a sign is going to slow down said ricer? :confused:
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Obviously it won't, but loosening all his lug nuts sure as shit would. Or a small stone placed inside his valve stem caps. Slowly leaks air. That's a fun one to fuck with people:lmao:Especially if it was done to all 4 tires...
 
We always had one DB that would rip down our road at 6:00 am reving 6k like it was a dirt track. I think he wrecked or blew his truck up because it quit one day. Gravel road in MT, not a priority for the cops. Most people driving like a wanker end up wrecked out at some point.
 
Sterlingfire said:
Oh, i see, fuckers only do it during your working hours... got you good don't they? Probably don't speed on the weekends either, bastatds.
Don't you have a wife that can shake the rakes while you're at work? :lmao:
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No because she doesn't care what other people do and isn't a Karen calling the city over shit!:flipoff2:

I will admit I could tell I'm getting older when I mother fuck the homo in the mustang in the apartment complex I'm stuck in revving it up like 90 times then goes driving down the street in 1st gear at 9k RPMs 10xs a day. Not at geriatric call the cops level yet!!:flipoff2:
 
Sceep said:
Seriously.. Engineer gonna call his buddy the code enforcer, whos gonna be all over your property like flies on shit.
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No worries. You see, I have two parcels... One within city limits, and the adjoining one *outside* city limits. Anything not kosher and not grandfathered can easily be placed on the rear parcel, and out of their jurisdiction. :flipoff2:
 
Squeaky wheel gets the grease...if nobody says anything to the city, nothing changes. I've got an open one about lack of a stop sign at an intersection coming from an unassumed road (residential traffic is using it but it's still under the developer). City said yup, we'll take a look, I don't think I'll hear back for a month or two but it's a safety concern since there's an intersection with no signage and no clear right of way.
 
SomeGuy said:
Squeaky wheel gets the grease...if nobody says anything to the city, nothing changes. I've got an open one about lack of a stop sign at an intersection coming from an unassumed road (residential traffic is using it but it's still under the developer). City said yup, we'll take a look, I don't think I'll hear back for a month or two but it's a safety concern since there's an intersection with no signage and no clear right of way.
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Exactly... And its not like this is a huge city... Population in the neighborhood of 24-25,000. ONE City Engineer is how small it is. He's actually been on my property during the sewer project and we talked about everything involved at that time. One of the stipulations was that all signage would be replaced.
 
DRTDEVL said:
And that, folks, is my entire point.
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Preach it!

We are in an extra territorial area very close to a growing town. On septic but with county water. We are already subject to some of their BS. I really hope we can avoid getting absorbed when they try it. Cause I know they will for the tax base.

There is nothing they could offer that would make it worth it. No way they will plow out here and in NC that is rare anyway and all our vehicles are 4x4. Don't need sidewalks out where we are. Trash is handled cheaply by a small company. Water is cheap.
 
Sterlingfire said:
Obviously it won't, but loosening all his lug nuts sure as shit would. Or a small stone placed inside his valve stem caps. Slowly leaks air. That's a fun one to fuck with people:lmao:Especially if it was done to all 4 tires...
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May have or may not have used 4 bb's to accomplish that same task. It was either pretty funny, or it wasn't. Depends on your perspective.
 
You could do what I did. We were having problems similar to yours when we lived in the city. The the SD after my wife was crossing the road pregnant and a broke ass mustang that had been doing drag race starts on our dead end street came so close to her crossing that she slapped the car. SD said they were busy but would swnd someone out that day, cool its a non emergency, and no one showed up. Next day asshole almost hit my truck from loosing control. I called and they said there is really nothing thwy can do unless they catch them in the act. I said then sit on my street in my driveway between this 30 minute window. You will see him and you can do something. There reply was we dont have the man power for that. I calmly said. Thats fine next time he almost hits my wife I will just handle it myself. We got a deputy within 5 minutes. We was playing the I understand I have kids but there is nothing he can do. I asked for his address so I could do drag race launches in his neighborhood. He got grumpy with me and I was getting hot at that point and said do your fucking job so the citizens dont have to. Well the next day they arrested the kid for 50 in a 25 and said. Sorry we didn’t think it was that big of a problem.
 
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