For the Love of Belle Terre! (Blog for Democracy)

For the Love of Belle Terre!

Cobb seeks to restrict who can live in a house together. Otherwise known as "Hispanics, get the F out!"

Under Cobb's proposal, a house must have at least 390 square feet of "total building square footage" for each adult resident and for each car parked overnight. It also would limit the people living in a home to one family or two or fewer unrelated adults and their children and/or grandchildren. Family is defined as parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers and sisters.
Officials say they could make exceptions. For example, if a family wanted to let its adult children live at home, it could apply for a land-use permit.

I bet I know how those permits are gonna go, "Hey Bob, this guy who is asking for a permit has a Z in his name! Can you believe it?"

Posted by Stefan on July 26, 2007 12:28 PM | Permalink

Comments (6)

Jen B.

Ha! Belle Terre..

So if a family's 24 year old son, who just graduated from college and doesn't want to get a job.. moves in, the family has to apply for a permit? WTF?

Posted by Jen B. | July 26, 2007 12:44 PM

Posted on July 26, 2007 12:44

MelGX

They were making noises about this at the NPU-D meeting Tuesday night. No action taken, but I expect it will come up again. It's going to be a tough sell in our neighborhood because of the amount of student housing. I can appreciate the restrictions on cars, especially if they are parked on the street, but agree the resident restrictions are ethnically motivated.

Posted by MelGX | July 26, 2007 2:41 PM

Posted on July 26, 2007 14:41

Jen B.

Clarke County passed a law when I was a freshman / sophomore at UGA that no more than 2 unrelated persons could live in a household. This was due to neighborhoods complaining about frat guys moving in and putting couches on their lawns.

I think it's still in effect.

Posted by Jen B. | July 26, 2007 2:53 PM

Posted on July 26, 2007 14:53

Drew

Of course, given that same-sex couples are "unrelated" under the ordinance, while similarly situated different-sex couples are not, it's anti-gay as well as anti-immigrant.

It's a big "screw you" to nontraditional families and the working class generally, and thus exactly what one could expect from Cobb County.

Posted by Drew | July 27, 2007 1:19 AM

Posted on July 27, 2007 01:19

Mouth of the South

I haven't seen the actual language, but it could be than an unmarried couple could shoehorn two families into the definition made for one.

Posted by Mouth of the South | July 27, 2007 9:41 AM

Posted on July 27, 2007 09:41

JerryT

A really good letter about this on the GALEO website.
http://www.galeo.org/story.php?story_id=0000003354

Posted by JerryT | July 27, 2007 10:33 AM

Posted on July 27, 2007 10:33