Michigan Votes Forum

 So Ron Jelenik wants to creat neighborhood junk yards. He must be sponsoring this bill for his constituency in New Troy or the various Farm equipment junk collectors in his area. JUst exactly how will he determine if a restoration is in progress or progressing? How about disposal of the parts cars after restoration is complete (if ever).  This bill should have never seen the day of light. What the hell was he thinking.

 FANTASTIC! It's ABOUT TIME that us hobbiests got some protection from these people who like to pass laws just to make life more difficult for other people!  What people do with their own property should be their business only, it's not for the state or anyone else to tell them what the can and can't keep there.  With the provisions that it's shielded from view it's a win-win for everybody.

Who's buisiness is it if the restoration is progressing?  Who is to determine 'how fast' a restoration should go?  I've known restorations to take as long as 20 years in some cases.  My own personal restoration has been going on for 6 years, and I'm still not close to being done. Who has any right to tell me if I'm not working fast enough on it? and if It's properly shieled from your view, why should you even care in the first place?  The whole point of 'parts cars' is that they are not disposed of until there is nothing of value left on them.  A the restoration shop I Work at, we often reduce a car to just a few rusty pieces of sheet metal you could hardly identify as a car by the time we send it off to the scrap metal places.

Car collecting and restoration as a hobby should be permitted by local authorities in most (even all) zones, provided it does not create a nuisance situation.  This bill provides for that kind of regulation.  

Problems also arise when hoibbies morph into businesses.  Car collecting and restoration certainly is one of those hobbies with great potential for that, and so should be prone to regulation that addresses the question of commercialization.