Thursday, August 14, 2008
3 more chances to sell all your property
The Council has decided to allow the residents three more garage sales per year. Big deal, when people are struggling to put food on the table, make their mortgage payments, and gas up their car! Do they seriously think that 3 extra yard sales will make up for the MILLIONS in additional debt City officials have burdened the residents with? Not to mention the increased taxes that are coming next year to pay for their legacies on the weary and hurting backs of the residents! The City Manager acknowledges that residents are having a hard time paying their light bills, putting food on the table, and filling up their cars so they can go to work. Instead of some tax relief we get 3 more garage sales? Incredible! Let them eat cake! Incredibly and totally insensitive and out of touch with the lives of the average residents. No clue, or apparent awareness that we are in a recession and people are losing their jobs and their homes,and little concern.
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I was horrified to read that our council has proposed an amendment to our garage sale ordinance. One member proposed allowing residents to have up to 12 sales per year. Am I missing something? According to Wikipedia, a “garage sale” is typically the sale of unwanted items from the household with the home owners conducting the sale. These items are offered for sale because the owner does not want or need them or to minimize their possessions.
Presently the ordinance allows up to three garage sales per year per household. Now at the greatest stretch of my imagination, I just cannot see a household having to sell off their unwanted goods once a month, or 12 times a year. This is no longer their “unwanted stuff”, this is resale of stuff they have probably picked up at a flea market or dollar store, and is therefore no longer a “garage sale” but a profitable and unsightly home business. Our council wants to turn Miami Springs into one huge flea market every Saturday and Sunday.
One of the reasons quoted for the change is that “people are struggling in these tough times”. Shouldn’t they do what most other people in those circumstances do, and take their merchandise to the Opa Locka Flea Market? Please define for me exactly what the council considers a “garage sale”. A garage sale is clearly the sale of unwanted items from a household, nothing more and nothing less.
I am shocked that the council has even considered this regrettable change. If it goes through they will live to rue the day. I have driven down Westward Drive on a Saturday and have seen houses that look more like “Ñoo – Que Barato” than a family residence. The whole yard is taken up with new (not used) clothing, furniture and appliances. I was in fact at the point of bringing this matter up at a council meeting, but as these residents were only permitted to hold this market three times a year, I guess they soon used up their quota.
In order to maintain the integrity of our city, I feel that as residents we should protest this change most vehemently. I will certainly be at the next council meeting to speak out against this heinous attempt to change our city from Miami Springs to Mumbai. I hope I will see you there too.
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