{"id":7619,"date":"2018-03-05T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:10:05","slug":"just-the-map-maam-just-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/just-the-map-maam-just-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Map Ma\u2019am, Just the Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n

Duke\u2019s Garage update:<\/p>\n

As you may have read, the Town of New Boston is once again trying to put Duke\u2019s Garage out of business by any means possible, that means ZONING. And with zoning a town can simply bankrupt anyone without the financial means to defend themselves. This is exactly what is going on in this instance.<\/p>\n

You would think a case involving property rights, facts matter, but you would be wrong. Remember, court in New Hampshire is not what you would call taxpayer friendly.<\/p>\n

The case New Boston makes against John and Mona Winslow, owners of Duke\u2019s Garage, is that New Boston Zoning places them in a residential\/agricultural district.<\/p>\n

That might be true but when zoning was adopted in New Boston it was long after Duke\u2019s Garage was operating. The Town claims now in 2018 that he is in violation of a junkyard ordinance. But the Winslow\u2019s do not run a junkyard. Duke\u2019s garage is a repair, towing, fabrication business operating since June of 1966.<\/p>\n

In 1970 New Boston tried to charge Duke\u2019s Garage with being in violation of a state statute that prohibited more than two unregistered vehicles on a property at a time. Duke\u2019s Garage had more than that number because the vehicles were towed there and awaiting insurance claims. Remember, Duke\u2019s Garage is an established towing service that predates zoning and has vested property rights \u2013 part of the New Boston Ordinance when it was adopted.<\/p>\n

What happened in 1970 when New Boston took Duke\u2019s Garage to court?<\/p>\n

The Town lost. The business had been in effect and was a commercial operation. To this day New Boston requires in-town towing services to have parking for ten vehicles if they want to tow for the Town. How is that supposed to work if Duke\u2019s Garage wanted to tow for the Town, again?<\/p>\n

But much to New Boston\u2019s dismay a map was drawn of the so-called violations on the Winslow property as it was in 1970. The map clearly shows his garage, vehicles, and of all things \u2013 trailers. Here in 2018 New Boston is claiming Duke\u2019s Garage may not park trailers on his property. But he built and repaired trailers on the same lot since 1966.<\/p>\n

If you look at the 1970 map from the first time New Boston tried to shut Duke\u2019s Garage down, you can see for yourself.<\/p>\n

But the people who offer endless zoning amendments often have their own agendas. New Boston wasn\u2019t quite ready to allow grandfathering of pre-existing uses when the ordinance was sold to the voters. It was a ploy to get people with businesses to vote for it. Bait and switch. If a business did that it would be called a crime.<\/p>\n

New Boston has tried this stunt several times since 1970. They lost again in 1978 and in 1997 settled with a clean-up of \u201cjunk\u201d with a credible list of what they wanted removed \u2013 as the law requires.<\/p>\n

We will keep readers abreast of this abuse of pre-existing property rights and how courts interpret zoning ordinances in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Winslow Map [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile Duke\u2019s Garage update: As you may have read, the Town of New Boston is once again trying to put Duke\u2019s Garage out of business by any means possible, that means ZONING. And with zoning a town can simply bankrupt anyone without the financial means to defend themselves. This is exactly what is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}