KIRO Radio
The mayor of Lake Stevens has responded to a resident who claims the city is fining him up to $250,000 for keeping firewood for charity on his property.
On Thursday, Shane McDaniel told the Dori Monson Show that 160 cords of wood currently sit on his property because in the winter he gives firewood to people in need, such as single moms, veterans, and cancer patients.
Much of the firewood came from donors who had heard of his acts of community service, but he said that around 20 cords came from the city after it cut down some Douglas firs. More
Gee can residents in California fine the State for the fire hazard they’ve accumulated???
No good deed goes unpunished.
The gentleman is an obstreperous cross grained fellow. City government is corrupt and duplicitous as is usual with governments everywhere. Tempest, meet teapot. Certainly the city wants his property on the lake at the park boundary. What governmental jurisdiction today does not covet ALL of the wealth, of any kind, within that jurisdiction?
The city needs a list. Probably so they can go fine them for code violations on their wood stoves/fireplaces.
My memory tends to fail me at times, who was the Asshole a few years ago that said it was illegal to give food to the homeless??
Government tends to SUCK!
although I’m practically always against gubmint interference, I can see the mayor’s point …. stacking firewood is the proper way to store firewood. throwing it into a haphazard pile invites a conflagration
hizoner is willing to work w/ the guy & hasn’t even fined him, he’s just making threats to get a solution worked out, where the firewood dude is not being cooperative
… at least that’s what I get from the story … who knows what is the real situation?
That’s an impressive commitment to being charitable.
Some dude in the city bureaucracy is jealous of his big wood.
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Mexicans! Still doing the work Americans are too, damn, lazy to do.
How much wood would a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood?
If there’s no PG&E power line over it what’s the problem?