I know many of our Sac Rag readers are lawyers and/or highly educated. As such, please to explain why a person can be fined for having a boat on his property (CC&R I would assume) but not for spray painting a message on his garage door?
Constitutional guarantees of free speech will make it difficult for the city to order Fredrick to remove the painted message. In fact, Fredrick said his visual protest may be expanding soon.
So couldn’t the boat parking be this man’s way of expressing himself to all those lilly livered land lovers out there that refuse to enjoy the many wonderful waterways our great state has to offer?
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Must be a city ordinance, since it’s the City of Manteca giving him problems over it.
I’ve seen worse on residential properties than a boat. And when the big floods hit, I’m sure his neighbors would be more than happy to have his boat nearby.
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A quick trip to the City of Manteca website and their municipal code section 17.15.100 http://ordlink.com/codes/manteca/index.htm
provides the answer to how he can be fined for the boat:it’s specifically prohibited. Not so his exercise of the first amendment right to free speech.
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