Widow Faces Eviction in Fla. City For ‘Living Off the Grid’

If there is city sewage and city water running in the street in front of the house, then code is set to insist on these basics for health reasons.

The basic idea is that they don't want people shitting in a hole in their back yard, instead they want the waste removed from the neighborhood, to a treatment facility where it gets treated.

If you have water in the street in front of your property, housing density is most likely too high to support things like privies and septic tanks.


Similar laws are pretty much everywhere in the USA and industrialized nations. The problem is not one or two individuals living on a privy, the problem is that privies and leach lines (septic tanks) leach out their bio-wastes into the surrounding soils.

If she is on a privy (out house) then there is potential for airborne fecal based disease which the code is in place to protect everyone that lives around her.

The property is not being condemned because she lives off grid, its being condemned because it is most likely in violation of local health codes that protect her neighbors from her shit.

No doubt if she lived a bit away from town, on a street road without water main and sewers she could live pretty much as she pleases, because the local population density would be low enough to sustain her lifestyle.

the news reporters stated that the city inspector condemned
the property because the owner did not have electricity,
sewage, and water turned on.

this is what you get when you live in a city or town border.

the bureaucrats/inspectors are the real lords over you.

The Amish and some other religious groups live off the grid. Are the nazi's going to evict them from their homes too?

For that matter, everyone lived off the grid before there was a grid!

Gosh, how did they do it without the government... oh, even the government was off the grid!

What the hell is wrong with people nowadays?

I think it's BS too. They have no authority to condemn a property just because it doesn't have electricity and/or water hooked up.

If there is city sewage and city water running in the street in front of the house, then code is set to insist on these basics for health reasons.

The basic idea is that they don't want people shitting in a hole in their back yard, instead they want the waste removed from the neighborhood, to a treatment facility where it gets treated.

If you have water in the street in front of your property, housing density is most likely too high to support things like privies and septic tanks.


Similar laws are pretty much everywhere in the USA and industrialized nations. The problem is not one or two individuals living on a privy, the problem is that privies and leach lines (septic tanks) leach out their bio-wastes into the surrounding soils.

If she is on a privy (out house) then there is potential for airborne fecal based disease which the code is in place to protect everyone that lives around her.

The property is not being condemned because she lives off grid, its being condemned because it is most likely in violation of local health codes that protect her neighbors from her shit.

No doubt if she lived a bit away from town, on a street road without water main and sewers she could live pretty much as she pleases, because the local population density would be low enough to sustain her lifestyle.

For that matter, everyone lived off the grid before there was a grid!

Gosh, how did they do it without the government... oh, even the government was off the grid!

What the hell is wrong with people nowadays?

If there is city sewage and city water running in the street in front of the house, then code is set to insist on these basics for health reasons.

The basic idea is that they don't want people shitting in a hole in their back yard, instead they want the waste removed from the neighborhood, to a treatment facility where it gets treated.

was it her home or was she squatting in someone elses? this is a big problem in florida now.

If there is city sewage and city water running in the street in front of the house, then code is set to insist on these basics for health reasons.

The basic idea is that they don't want people shitting in a hole in their back yard, instead they want the waste removed from the neighborhood, to a treatment facility where it gets treated.

If you have water in the street in front of your property, housing density is most likely too high to support things like privies and septic tanks.


Similar laws are pretty much everywhere in the USA and industrialized nations. The problem is not one or two individuals living on a privy, the problem is that privies and leach lines (septic tanks) leach out their bio-wastes into the surrounding soils.

If she is on a privy (out house) then there is potential for airborne fecal based disease which the code is in place to protect everyone that lives around her.

The property is not being condemned because she lives off grid, its being condemned because it is most likely in violation of local health codes that protect her neighbors from her shit.

No doubt if she lived a bit away from town, on a street road without water main and sewers she could live pretty much as she pleases, because the local population density would be low enough to sustain her lifestyle.

That depends on where you live. Municipalities have certain requirements before they will issue a homeowner a C.O. (Certificate of Occupancy) and be allowed to occupy a home. If it's not to code, they condemn the property.

If there is city sewage and city water running in the street in front of the house, then code is set to insist on these basics for health reasons.

The basic idea is that they don't want people shitting in a hole in their back yard, instead they want the waste removed from the neighborhood, to a treatment facility where it gets treated.

If you have water in the street in front of your property, housing density is most likely too high to support things like privies and septic tanks.


Similar laws are pretty much everywhere in the USA and industrialized nations. The problem is not one or two individuals living on a privy, the problem is that privies and leach lines (septic tanks) leach out their bio-wastes into the surrounding soils.

If she is on a privy (out house) then there is potential for airborne fecal based disease which the code is in place to protect everyone that lives around her.

The property is not being condemned because she lives off grid, its being condemned because it is most likely in violation of local health codes that protect her neighbors from her shit.

No doubt if she lived a bit away from town, on a street road without water main and sewers she could live pretty much as she pleases, because the local population density would be low enough to sustain her lifestyle.

Thank you. Someone who is familiar with municipal codes speaks the truth. At the base of it all, health dept. considers you a health hazard, at baseline of most standards. (I do municipal zoning.)

the meters are a network. Capture and study the traffic. I am surprised no one has transmitted bogus data. The incentive is free power.

the news reporters stated that the city inspector condemned
the property because the owner did not have electricity,
sewage, and water turned on.

this is what you get when you live in a city or town border.

the bureaucrats/inspectors are the real lords over you.

There are many devices, such as incinerating and composting toilets, that allow for proper sanitation without water. The codes generally enforce the state of the community 50 years behind the times.

A Fla. city is set to evict a widow for her unique lifestyle of “living off the grid.”

Robin Speronis told WFTX-TV that she was given an eviction notice after the station aired a story about how she chooses to live in a home without modern amenities, such as running water and electricity.
SNIP..

“I’m going to bring this to the attention of anyone who will listen until justice is served,” she said.


“Where is the justice? Why did they choose me,” she asked, “I was exercising my First Amendment rights of free speech in discussing living off the grid.”
SNIP..

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she's probably too proud. This is her own little "fuck you" to society.

Might not mean much to us but to her its her life, her money, her life.

More power to her, fuck the gov

But, why did they single her out..? I'm sure there's alot of people out there just like her..




LOL...Now, that would be funny...someone sending them bogus data..

When you choose to live in the city, you choose to abide by the laws of such city. If you don't like it, move to the county where they usually have barely 5 ordinances. You can live off the grid, shit in the ground, eat the dirt, all you want in the county. That's why I live in the county, I can do whatever I want.

The revised BILL OF RIGHTS:

You have the right to make payments to your oligarchs.

The revised BILL OF RIGHTS:

You have the right to make payments to your oligarchs.

A Fla. city is set to evict a widow for her unique lifestyle of “living off the grid.”

Robin Speronis told WFTX-TV that she was given an eviction notice after the station aired a story about how she chooses to live in a home without modern amenities, such as running water and electricity.
SNIP..

“I’m going to bring this to the attention of anyone who will listen until justice is served,” she said.


“Where is the justice? Why did they choose me,” she asked, “I was exercising my First Amendment rights of free speech in discussing living off the grid.”
SNIP..

[link to www.theblaze.com]