CAMBRIDGE - Gavin Peters came home last week to find a note on his door. It was from a Cambridge city inspector, and it asked Peters to call him “regarding your pool.’’ On Friday, his “children’s wading pool,’’ as the inspector referred to it, received six citations for violating the city’s building, zoning and sanitary codes, and he was given seven days to remove it. The problem, according to Peters, is that he doesn’t have a pool in his yard. He has an ice rink. Or at least he was supposed to. In this weirdest of winters, the Peters citation is just the latest sign of a season that wasn’t.
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When one lives in the People's Republic of Cambridge this kind of thing is to be expected. This is what the "progressive" nanny state looks like on the micro level. Get use to it this is coming on the national level.
So in the end, the city did the right thing and rescinded the violations, making this a total non-story. Not sure why you had to wait until the very end of the article to throw that in, I guess to avoid people reading right away that there's really no point to this article?
Please note that it is the TOWN of Brookline. Brookline is not a city.
Just as in the 2008 case, it seems like Mr Peters might have a neighbor problem. Otherwise, how would the city know to dredge up a litany of technical violations to charge him with? I'm glad common sense seems to have prevailed, but now, more sense has to be found to prevent cases like this from arising again.
Score! You beat me to the punch.