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Show THE .f You do what your government tells you to do, even if it doesn't make sense and you suffer mentally and financially by doing it. You had to jump through a lot of regulatory hoops to get where you are with your business or your new home; and because you had to do it, everyone else should have to do the same. You like to have a lot of ordinances in place in your town, to cover every conceivable problem of dealing with your fellow man. Your main goals are to avoid being responsible for solving your problems yourself, to avoid having to fallt face to face with your neighbor, and most of all, to avoid being shamed into having to be fair with him or her. Or are you like some of the rest of us? We've been called troublemakers, libertarians, obstructionists and other less polite names. We believe in what some people call "hard core property rights," but what I call basic human freedom. We think it ought to be OK to live in any size trailer just about anywhere. We think be OK to work hard to make a living and be left alone on your own property. We to it ought intend to rewrite the zoning laws of Grand County. We didn't know this kind of ridiculous language even existed and we're going to get rid of it. Yes, some of us have very different views on property rights. So different that I've never been able to understand how anyone in their right mind could be like the citizen I described first. Yet, I know we've got a lot of these kinds of people living here. The rights of property holders become extremely important when community life becomes chaotic, as life in the Moab area has become for most of us in the last few years. Because when everything else is in an uproar, you need the protection of your own property to have same peace and quiet. And if you can't get any peace there, you get very, very angry. In fact, many people who used to have a long fuse on their anger now have a very short fuse when it comes to this particular issue. No, property rights is an issue that will not go away. i! i " r. ZEFHYRJAN-FE- :: 1994 B PAGE 25 UTS old m iwustiisj 69 IMfcuaQi HAPPY MEW YEAR from all of us at TCI Cable Kaventa Coffee House 92 E. Confer 259-25- 53 Next to tho Downtown Visitor Cantor. WERE OPEN FROM T AMTO V--- WHENEVER I DECIDE THAT THE CHANCES OF ANOTHER CUSTOMER COMING IN ARE AS $ LIKELY AS PIGS FLYING. Now offering whole bean or ground to order SALT LAKE ROASTING COFFEES Soup Sandwich AND Pastries PONT FORGET A Outdoor Equipment Rentals Rock jjk'V A. ClmMng-Moentdnseri- Hut t Tours . X : f 'flWv ng Dackpacldng-Kaya- fc Hut-to-- . 1 I t Skiing 14 MILE 239-66- 04 PASTELrS ONHVY 191 W1 V'-- i W9 WE SERVE BREAKFAST .7 :& :' i r 3 YXi u 1,113 9? WiT' mdt v Your finest choice of coffees Is just a toll-fr- ee call away. QsssS, II cscsb ajfMUQSSii 00 0 o CALL TOLL-FRE- E: 800-748-48- 87 |