Pat Dollard

Some libtard driving a Prius with a Darwin-eating-a-fish-logo, “save the whales” bumper sticker and “Gay Pride” Rainbow sticker no doubt started all of this.

The left won’t stop until all private meetings in all homes are outlawed. I don’t think this was a planned event in any case, but the left will read about this and understand it is a tool they can use to inhibit the right.

If we have ACCDF meetings on a regular basis in someones home we could be considered a parking problem as well. Let’s discuss a work around, or solution. Not everyone will have a community center they can rent or use for meetings. Some will occur in peoles homes.

Here they come. They’re burning the troops’ bibles and now their going to ‘criminalize’ bible study. It’s the slow creep of totalitarianism brought on by liberal-think. Get used to it or get thee armed. :gun:

I emailed all 5 of the County Supervisors on this when I read it on Drudge this morning. I got 2 personal responses from 2 supervisors saying they were looking into it.

This afternoon I got this response from the county’s public affairs officer.

Impressive. Hat tip to the county for its spirited response to a PR fiasco.

I love the rule of law but I’m still not sure why a parking problem on the street would necessitate the tenor of questions asked of the pastor. The details of what they were doing inside the house were irrelevant to parking code enforcement. Even asking these questions could be used as a pretext to discriminating on the basis of religion.

There are 2 issues in the 1st ammendment these zoning enforcers have to balance.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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From: Conaughton, Gig
To: ————–
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:12 PM
Subject: County of San Diego, Code Enforcement Case

Hey there ———-,

How you doing today? Well, I hope. My name is Gig Conaughton. I’m the public affairs officer for the County of San Diego’s Department of Planning and Land Use. Your message was sent along to me and I wanted to make sure that I got back to you as quickly as I could. As you can imagine, we’ve received a lot of interest about this case.

I just want to let you know from the County’s perspective what has happened and what we’re doing.

We received a Code Enforcement complaint from a person in Pastor Jones’ neighborhood about weekly traffic problems associated with a regular meeting at the Pastor’s house. We are meeting with the Pastor and his attorney to see if we can’t resolve the parking and other land-use problems. The County does not go looking for code violations. We do, however, respond to and investigate 3,000 to 4,000 code enforcement complaints each year that are filed by members of the public about land-use issues such as parking, noise, health and safety, etc. This situation is really no different.

As part of our investigation into the complaint, and in keeping with our practice, we went out to the site to review the situation. We spoke with the homeowner (the Pastor’s wife) and in the process asked her some questions to determine what the source of the weekly meetings were. This is normal. Code Enforcement involves applying the County’s Zoning Ordinance —- our local law that determines what land uses are allowed in what areas, ie: residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, etc. The zoning ordinance is our general guide to determine if a liquor store can be built here, or a retail superstore, a house or other facility can go there.

In this case, it appears the main concern is about traffic and parking, from an access and safety perspective.

Our Code Enforcement believed there was enough evidence of a problem to issue a written warning. This warning is part of our process that allows our Code Enforcement Division to start talks with the property owner to share information, clarify issues and discuss what kind of corrective action needs to be taken if it’s needed.

Again, I can’t stress enough that we have spoken with property owner and his attorney, and plan to speak with them again, to try to resolve this issue so that everyone is happy with the result.

And I want to thank you again for taking the time to send me your e-mail.

Have a great day,

Gig Conaughton

Public Affairs Officer

Department of Planning and Land Use

County of San Diego