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[rapuda]

I am in a profession that has me respond to the homes of many individuals. It amazes me how many times I'm unable to find someones home due to a lack of a properly displayed number on the home or mailbox. Everyone should have legible numbers displayed on both their home and mailbox.
If you called for help with the police department, or fire department, you'd want them to get there as quickly as possible. Having properly displayed numbers helps emergency personnel find you quicker.
The next time you leave your house, take a look at it from the street and ask yourself if you could figure out what the address of that house was if you didn't already know it. Look to see if you can identify it's exact number. If you can't to either question, then you need to go buy some numbers and display them.

[Colby]

Some towns require it and threaten fines if you don't have the numbers. Maybe that's what we need.

[UNiRAC]

I hear your complaint but with the IT resources today... only UPS can't read a 2 ft address and a 2 in. no. on my home. Rich@rRT5:cool:

[jma]

Meriden already has an ordinance for house numbers. Try getting anyone from housing to enforce it though!

[gunderstone]

Interestingly that's the main issues with all City and Town ordinances; they are toothless as there is often little that can be done to enforce them.

It's almost as if they are trying to placate both sides.

Someone wants an ordinance for whatever reason, as an example, an ordinance against having more than four garage / tag sales on one homeowner property in a calendar year.

The person asking their representative for this is probably someone who is tired of seeing cars parked up and down the street on many nice weekends at the same neighbor's house for a garage / tag sale as they practically perceive it as a homeowner running a business out of their house.

City or Town representatives agree but they do not want to make it look as if they are coming down hard on people's freedoms so they try to find an acceptable number like 4 in a calendar year. Surely, no matter how much junk you amass, 4 over the course of 12 months should be sufficient for the average person especially when you consider that in most cases around here that someone is only going to have garage / tag sales in the warmer months on average (March though October).

So initially that tends to make the person complaining happy at least a little and the average person that has no more than two a year (if that) are really totally unaffected

From there, the only real impact is the people that exceed that and usually at first they become upset until they figure out that there is no way to track and enforce the ordinance.

That then makes the original complainer unhappy because there is something on the books now that is largely unenforceable and the neighbor goes right back to being a nuisance and effectively an ordinance breaker by hosting as many of them again as they wish

Out an out laws are like that - no matter how many tickets are handed out for hand held cell phone use by drivers of automobiles all you need to do when driving on the highway is peer over at the car going by and you'll see the majority of folks are going right along fully aware they are breaking the law

[jma]

The City came up with a citation system years ago, but never went through with it. The idea was to have enforcement officers issue tickets out to any violators of city ordinances. The tickets would either be paid by the homeowner, or end up as liens against the property. The plan got tossed out when Mayor Marinan left, but I remember the neighborhood associations were on board.

[stellas mom]

Why do we have to enforce another silly law?? Don't homeowners realize the importance of having a visible street number on their property? Are we getting so lazy that we need another law to be passed before we do something as simple as putting up house numbers on our property?

It's in the same vein as the cel phone law. I was under the impression that it was againt the law to do ANYTHING behind the wheel of an automobile except drive, and yet we had to take the time from our elected officials to debate & pass the cel phone law while other more important things languish. How about looking at deregulation of the utility companies, or looking into why town budgets are strapped from skyrocketing education costs and parents have to send their kids to Sylvan to get them to read & do their homework? Obviously the $$ to the education budget aren't teaching our kids to read or motivate them! But teachers get a nice pension and a raise every year - that's where the education money goes...