I moved in. Targeted, persistent, repeated harassment from the A.V. board members. Due to the fact the board members got help from the city, I am still being harassed, I cannot sell my home at this point, and my Civil Rights are being violated. My seven year old is having anxiety attacks and so am I. The private community is really not involved. I have a small landscaping business. I have some great neighbors, who really disgusted with the actions of the board and the city, in fact, I am their landscaper. To see the pictures of the home, the work & the Yard visit our facebook page. I believe you should do your best to defend yourself. I hope this never happens to you or someone that you care about. Further, I am asking anyone who works for a living with a family, landscapers, contractors anybody who can relate, or make a difference in my families life, who has a family or just thinks that the whole story is disgusting to call and complain to the Mayor's office or 311. I am asking that you write a letter to the mayors office. Call the mayor directly and let him know how you feel about these actions. I'm sure he will welcome the response for, "People Over Politics". Feel free to comment on the association website. Please don't vote for him again, vote for the other guy. I am and I hope he plans to fire these people for abusing their power. It's out of control and needs to be shut down- peacefully of course.
This is the terrible truth about events in my life in the past few years and I hope to share my story with others. Please pass this on to everyone who lives in Danbury and people in Connecticut. This is a danger not only to my family but to anyone who lives here in Danbury as well, because it can happen to you too. In 1970 when zoning came through and bought the street they purchased a piece of my land as well. This land houses my septic system and was purchased for $1. It is absolutely useless to the City, but instead of "People over Politics" what I got after three letters to the mayor was to find myself in court being sued to remove my fence & equipment. The land could have been sold back for $1 and the taxes could have been collected, but because the city did favors for friends I was dragged through the courts, I cannot sell my home and my kids could chase after a ball and be seriously hurt or killed. Further, my husband has been arrested for the second time because board member lied and others swear to the lies. Then the police do favors for friends. It's frightening and we all need to know about this as citizens.
I was offered an agreement for the septic, verbally, but it's useless an the City knows it. It's not to help my family, but the shed their liability of the septic. They should have never purchased the land with the septic in it, and further even if they didn't know what they bought, why would you do this to a family with two little girls? If you goal was to take away anything from our family-you are just sad. Why would you not sell it back for $1 and tell those people that by law we were not doing anything wrong. Further, why would you try to attack us sending letters over & over, serving us. Further, Arresting my husband twice for breach of peace, when he was doing nothing wrong. Obviously he defended his family and he doesn't deserve the attack so viscously unleashed by these animals. No family should have to endure the hell my family has been through. I don't care who's feelings got hurt, or if he blocked the road a few times, grow up and get over yourselves, you should have thought of that when you had your hand on the phone and you were calling about, Dirt in the Street, and the other nonsense you enjoyed calling the police department for. Instead of these huge egos abut your position on the board why would you not come over and try to meet us and get to know us. What kind of people act like this?
I sell my condo for double what its worth. I put $30,000.00 down to lower the mortgage and sink the rest into a "fixer upper". The home is explained to have "nothing scathingly wrong with it by the realtor and it's our first home. I bought it while it was in probate because the man who owned it died suddenly. Which is now worth squat due to the housing market, and I cannot sell due to the City of Danbury, and the removal of my fence, and their direct attack on me and my family. I was young and foolish. I trusted the real estate agent, & my attorney to have my back, that is not what happened. When I moved in there was 100ft of forsynthia hedges. After finding two hypodermic needles in March/April 2009 we put in a white vinyl fence in place of the hedges. Fence 2009 We did this for the safety of our children & to upgrade our land, but had no idea it wasn't our land because it was grossly misrepresented to us. We were exercising our constitutional right to privacy which is also being violated. Let's start with Mrs. C because she is the one who basically started everything. Let's call her Mrs. C board member and neighbor decided that after a flood from a Nor'easter on February 26th 2010, she would tell her insurance company that it was the cause of my husband when we leveled our yard & put in our fence a year prior. One City Paid Zoning Official, and one paid official but we will call him the lackee or Mr. S. since he doesn't work for zoning but does work for the mayor and were helping her build a case where their was no case they were on the clock abusing their power. She is the same one tied to the last arrest her & her son.
There was never an issue until the I did work at my home in March/April 2009. I put in a fence for the safety of my children. Although it's a private community the main road runs along my side yard and the cars speed by. I have been sitting in my car at the bus-stop and from the wind of the cars whipping by, my car moves. I found hypodermic needles and beer bottles, discarded garbage in my 100ft forsynthia hedges. I am being forced by court order to now remove the fence that keeps my children safe. It's disgusting to me. The street I live on is literally a one lane road and there are three houses on it. The board members became irate when they to go around the block. The ego's here could not be any bigger. There is another exit, closer to all of their homes, they do not use it much. To explain further when you pull into the driveway someone will have to wait while you pull in and due to the location of the house you might have to use the other street to back in. We live in a lake community, originally the homes were not designed to live in all year round. The homes were created originally as summer homes and so the roads are tiny, most people have two parking spaces due to the fact that the world has changed and everyone had their own vehicle. If you have a teenager you can relate. Yes this is a city, but not a busy city where public transportation is everywhere. These board members made it known that they were unhappy about going around the block, they cursed at us under their breathe, they cursed at us so we could hear them. They threw up their hands and even went as far as to stop and tell us "Are you going to move your sh**." "I'm on the Board you know". They called the police for everything and it's all made up. One board member lies and the other one swears to it. I guess it's what they think is "community." Most police just shrug & leave after they see the truth about what these people are calling about. It's never a real thing, but they love to call. I call them phone gangsters. It's clearly malicious and intentional. They call till this day & they lie to the police & the other board members swear to it, in a desperate attempt to cause harm to my family. Just recently my husband was arrested after an investigation was opened up weeks later and 53 days later was arrested for Breach of Peace-Road rage for beeping a horn, when the Board members teenage son almost smashed into one of our trucks as he was flying in reverse and evidently not in control of his vehicle. Although this guy was swearing, giving the finger and carrying on if you are friends with the police they arrest the other person for breach-of-peace and road rage.
My pickup trucks are/were parked neatly in my driveway. My skid-steer is/was behind a fence in the back-yard Danbury Code of Ordinance 3.E.4. According to city ordinance you can have it if it's behind a landscaped buffer or fence. I had both. Further, there is a landscaper in this community who has all the same things that I have, but not a word is said to him. Liability of Public Officials Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I am not in violation of the ordinances I was charged with by the city. 4.A.2 and 10.B.1.a. "A Contractor's Yard, Landscpers Yard/Office", which by very definition does not exist. In the State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Statutes Title 8> Chapter 124> § 8-12 (C) Establishment of municipal penalties for violations of regulations. (c) Any zoning enforcement officer who issues a citation pursuant to an ordinance adopted under this section shall be liable for treble damages in any civil action if the court finds that such citation was issued frivolously or without probable cause. This has been done to me & my family & proven in court, somehow it was not in our favor. Plain & simple.-I clearly proved it in court, it was ruled we could have everything but a skid-steer and a chipper but somehow the issue is continuing and the city is pursuing it. They have even tried to be slick and get my lawyer to help even though a judge didn't rule to move my trucks or trailers. By law it's staying in my driveway and if it didn't then where do we live? That would mean we have no rights as citizens. The only reason the things behind the fence had to be removed was because of ordinance 3.E.4.
I had no idea about the law, what ordinances were how to look them up and I do now. When I went down to the city hall I was given the run around. I was sent back and forth. I was told you didn't need a permit for a 6ft fence. I was told to get a permit from Mr. S. who started this whole thing to ", Close off the fence" out of sight out of mind." He lives in my neighborhood, works for the city and is VP of the board. There was never an appeal form given, no clear process and still have not received a "more formal statement" as to the Cease & Desist letters I received as required by law. I tried on three occasions to get an appeal or appeal form as what was stated on the paperwork I received. I figured out that the ordinances are online. and their is no process if you are targeted and singled out. When I showed them ordinances that I was being charged with, the people in charge asked me what they were. Really? I have spoken to attorneys. I have spoken to land surveyors, I have spoken to anyone who would listen. There was no such thing as an appeal process from zoning for my family. People are afraid of the city and it's a horrible position to be in. Which is a danger to every natural citizen. It means that they can do what-ever they want to whomever they want. Don't quit-Never stop fighting for your rights! I finally found a lawyer (out of here) that is helping us because even after years of being told the most stupid answers I never quit. I will never quit fighting for my family or my rights.
I have learned how to represent myself in the courts out of need. I cried out for help to The City of Danbury and after I wrote the mayor three letters begging for help and explaining how the people in charge were abusing their power, I found myself in court. I guess that was the obvious solution. Instead of disciplining the people responsible for grossly abusing their power or actually "Putting people over Politics" I found myself in a trial and a no win situation. The worst part is that the piece of land that the City bought in 1970 houses my septic. The City has no need for the land and since it was purchased for $1, it could be sold back for $1. Further, it would be smarter to collect the tax money. Of course that is not an option because instead of wasting tax payers money for trial and actually helping a family who was messed over the Mayor felt it was important to bring a family through a trial and force them to take a fence down that makes the property marketable. I am just a regular person, who had a dream to buy a home, start a family and who has been tormented by the association in the private community in which we live in Danbury, CT. To this day this continues on an almost daily basis and the worst part is I cannot sell my home, I'll explain further down. By permanent injunction I am being made to take down my fence, a fence that provides safety for two small children, although it was proven that I am not in violation of any ordinances, though it's not in the judges order, I am being made to get rid of my combination two plate pick-up trucks and a non-commercial pick-up truck. Even though by ordinance you can have a skid-steer behind a screened buffer, I am being made to get rid of my skid-steer. I proved that my dump truck was not commercial and I can by law have it. I proved the ordinances do not exist. Somehow, here I am. In fact there is another landscaper in this community and nothing is said to him. I don't want it to be either because neither of us is doing anything wrong.
The land in which my septic is housed in (my whole side yard) according to the City is a right of way. After getting a surveyor who wasn't afraid, wanted to do his job, and actually goes by the laws I found that the City is incorrect about how much of my land actually belongs to them. By the way here is how I actually got this done. I first called an Underground Surveying place. They came and marked my septic for about $100. I had called a big name around here for a survey. I was told. Don't bother, save your money, it's just going to come back the exact same way. Wrong, it did not and to say something like that without doing a title search is wreckless and shameful. Two important things, #1 their is no law in the state of CT that if you get a survey done that you have to file it with City hall. #2 Surveyors can only survey (A-2) what they can see, if you are smart what you do is get the Underground survey to mark the underground and then get a survey done. All this information is readily available to the City in town hall by the way. On one map from 1981, which was not a complete (A-2) survey and that was given to me by Zoning Official #2 Mr. L claiming that The City of Danbury to own the land, my whole side yard. According to the guy in town hall who is in charge of all the septic maintenance Mr. D it's a non-issue. He said," If the septic is working, what's the issue? You can put a septic anywhere". Evidently he forgot the rule that wells have to be 75ft from a Septic and that's why it was places in the location that it is now. Mostly because it's a boys club and he knows darn well it's only to flex it's muscle at a family. This man went as far as to say what if they widen the road? Yes, that would be such common sense, widen the road at just one house when there are houses all up & down the street right on top of a septic. FYI- There is no law stating you must file your survey with the City.
Since we have a system, based on what you can point out and not "justice" and most people who have never been in any " trouble with the law" we have an assumption that our Civil System, and zoning officials are just or fair, or that the local government-the city is there for us. Think again. The laws claim that zoning officials must come under equal protection grounds. Liability of Public Officials Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983- In terms for people who don't know what that means. Zoning enforcement and nuisance abatement has run amok in violation of civil rights and cannot single out one family for living just the same as everyone else is this city and New England for that matter. If you have a good leader, then these officials would be forced to do their jobs without abusing their power.
Local Government is a creature of the State and has no powers other than those conferred by Statute or reasonably necessary to carry out those powers. The old expression you cannot beat City Hall, well let's just leave it at that.
Our System....It's whatever you can prove in court or point out, unless the City is a boys club where they can do as they feel make sure to get an out of City attorney and ask specifically if they have an issue about going against the City or figure out a way to stay out of court and their is a way look around on you tube. Accept, I did nothing wrong, I bought a home & tried to make it safe for my little girls. I think most people just live their lives never giving the laws a second thought. The average person doesn't really know the laws, or even have any idea how to look them up, or further what they mean. It's a very confusing system, that's why we have lawyers, I guess? Try & get one without a huge retainer or that even wants to be bothered if your average person and Good Luck getting your questions answered. I did after finally years of asking lawyers, surveyors and friends. I learned how to defend myself on my smart phone because I have two small girls who need my undivided attention. If the City were to knock on the door an average person would trust them, take them at face value for whatever was being said and in an attempt to avoid any kind of "trouble" would just comply and try to get them to go away as fast as possible for fear of God knows what. But....What if one of these men lived in your neighborhood & was VP of the board in a private neighborhood? What if the guy had his own agenda. What if this person was not a good person, doing personal favors for friends. What if he began to help a neighbor with a civil case and start building a case against you in the process? What if all the people in the City were all not-friendly and you basically had no rights, had no shot in the dark to win in court because even when you prove in open court what the law is you are not an attorney and somehow the decision goes against what's just? It happened to me & my family.
When Zoning Official #1, Liability of Public Officials Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 there is another landscaper, right in the neighborhood with all the same things. Why would the city want and has not need have a need for the land. By map, one single plot map, that is missing the conveyance map of the septic system, I own about 6 feet from the house. If the city is allowed to go forward with my yard it takes away my entire yard and driveway. No-one in their right mind would buy this house like this, I would not have. When my husband made a joke and ran from one of the end of the yard to the other and asked the realtor Mrs. H, is this my yard? She said yes. Then he went over to the "second parking space" that had a truck in it. "Is this my yard", he repeated. Her reply, "yes". There is an entrance-way into the land for the septic to pump the house which The City is trying to get taken away in court. In trial VP of the board Mr. S's own words were "There was a parking space there as long as I can remember". By the way is an accessway to pump the septic. It's not the standard 9' and it's not paved. It was there when we moved in and in order to "close off the space" like the City was asking you had to recess the land since it was on an upward slope. If the city was not singling them out, every board member in this private community should be made to get rid of their "second parking space", multiple trailers, snow plows. We live just like everyone else on the board, but no one has an issue unless it's with us. Board Members with the exact same things. Board Members who live the exact same way and further, it's not in the bi-laws of this community to not have things. Our things are neatly in my driveway or behind a fence as by ordinance. Liability of Public Officials Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
To the Left is what they City is claiming is a right-of-way and claims belong to them. To the right is mine by map from 1981. The City used this to Bully our family. I own a lot more land than that.
I thought it was a nice place to raise children man was I mistaken. The neighborhood is safe, the schools are wonderful and the Board members are non-compassionate, self-serving and vindictive. Maybe some have displaced anger? I never knew that the word " community" meant translation viscous intentions. I had a much different idea of what being neighborly meant. Even in the ghetto people have more respect for the neighbors. Nobody calls the cops on the neighbor for blocking the street in fact they hang out in the street. I could go as a kid to my neighbor & borrow an egg or a stick of butter. My first experience after years of living here was having the cops called on me for stupid petty things. Blocking the street, which is sadly a different definition then what is actually happening. God forbid you have to take your spoiled over-privileged behind around the block, which is actually closer to where these board members live. I just plain got ripped off in multiple ways.
In discovery, on the case against the neighbor the other side was kind enough to give us the proof that the Board members, Mrs. C, Mr. A, Ms. G, now moved and not on the board and a deceased man who we have never met Mrs. NG's husband who is on the board committed Fraud, harassment, and clearly lied to signing false affidavits signed and notarized by another board member who frequently curses under her breathe as she drives by. Mrs K and calls the cops saying we block the street. In Ms. G's statement after police Department, Sgt. C did a favor for a friend for another board member Mr. M, who's father is a respected officer as well. Ms. G, When my husband was arrested on a breach of peace for a favor to a friend. "The neighbors and I got together, because he likes to frequently block the road, we call 311, something had to be done about it". (obviously 911) when this woman pulled directly behind my husband and shut off her car refusing to move. Four hours later after the police brushed her off a unit was at my home to arrest my husband for Breach of Peace I only figured out who was attacking me because the cop took pity on my and told me the truth because he was kind and only doing his job. I respect him because he is obviously a good cop forced to do the wrong thing. He was fighting with the Sargent & did not want to arrest my husband. At the point when my husband got out of the truck because he could not pull forward or back up due to the smallness of the road in a lake community and the fact that she pulled directly behind him. My husband had a stroke two weeks prior and was backing the truck in for my cousin who was a little nervous and helping us because it has our skid-steer on the trailer he had to help him due to the fact I wanted him to rest after such a crazy thing happening to his body and not to mention I was 8 months pregnant. The road is a one car road bottom line. It's a lake community anyone who goes down the road is blocking it. This woman claims fear from my husband. Due to the fact that my husband got into trouble as a kid, they used it as "probable cause". That was a over a decade before. How is that just? Everyday she walked past my house with her dogs twice a day. Does that seem like she fears for her life?
I went to internal affairs, on both arrests. Internal affairs in one guy. He works with the Captain.
Zoning officials had forged signatures on some of the Cease and Desist letters. What kind of people do this? Take a look at the video. The cops were here fast like always. Do you see Rage of any kind? You be the judge.
These people Board members-have done everything to us. They continue to harass us, call the police for non-sense and the police pretty much all know us now. It's pathetic. They are horrible hateful people with deep emotional issues. Maybe their mom's didn't hug them enough as children or maybe they just hate their own lives so deeply that they like to attack a family for no reason at all. They caused me to start having anxiety attacks. It was so bad that I was on the couch sick with anxiety, I went to the emergency room on three occasions, because I thought I was dying. I could barely leave my home and I had felt like they stole my peace. To all the stories of my husband being a monster, he wasn't outside in the street cursing everyone out and waiting to block the one lane road. If you experienced all the harassment we did, I am sure any normal person would act in the same manner. This man tried to defend his family. We work for a living to make a better life for our children. Nothing about anything we did was our fault and yet we have been treated like criminals. For the first time in my life I feel total rage and hatred toward another human being. I continuously pray for God to please help me feel forgiveness even when I don't. I can't even get away from these people because I can't sell. I don't want my children to have the wrong impression of the police, but they do. I don't want my kids lives to be effected by these evil people, but they are. Please help us. All I want is to be left alone. I want the land that is rightfully mine on a map so I can move. There are so many incidents that I have not mentioned because this blog is long. lol
I'm not a political person and I do not even vote. I'm going to start. Anyone would be better than the guy we have now and I am voting for that person and you should too. What we have had to endure, no one should have to endure. Thank You City of Danbury of singling out a family and giving these board members so much power to be bullies. The only thing that helps me is my holistic approach to life or I would be medicated and racked with anxiety. I will not quit. I will not stop fighting. Their is no reason, not a financial reason, or a logical reason for The City of Danbury to need the land. None. Yet they continue to try to prove a point that they have power and for what so you can win. What did you win accept to show that you are empty inside and pretty much a bully to children? Please help my two little girls. I am asking that in a peaceful way we come together and protest or anyone who has any legal power to shut-down this craziness. Do like me and vote for that other guy because it's a danger to all of us as citizens. I have been to several of people only to be told it's not their jurisdiction, it's a local issue. My families Civil Rights are clearly being violated. It's wrong and I thought I still lived in the USA. I have followed the legal chain of command, lost many hours of work, in order to research laws & attend hearings. I started to have severe panic attacks from all of the stress. Which is a whole other subject that I will post later. Please appreciate our difficult situation & help us find a way out of the nightmare that began when we thought we bought our dream-house. Vote so we have more control what's happening to us is unjust. The people have more power than they realize. The bottom line-no one cares in this City and you can do what you want as long as you know the "right" people.
A PERONAL MESSAGE TO A.V. BOARD
Mrs C. and son- you are terrible human beings and should be ashamed of who you are as a people. I need to say from one mother to another. Who raises their son to lie and steal from a family? The fact that you as a group plotted to cause harm to my family is sickening do you know that normal people do not act this way? Big deal you have to sometimes go around the block. If you weren't so sheltered in life you would be able to go out the other exit, and if you were smart you would stop wasting the money on a pig roast and take down the awful pillars so that an emergency vehicle would be able to fit like you were told by the fire department.
Mr. & Mrs K. we know you are lemmings that cannot think for yourselves. Mrs K. Its obvious by the way that you come down our block, cursing at us you a very unhappy inside and it shows. It must suck to feel that way every day.
As for the rest of you, even if you didn't participate in the phone calls & the lies, you chose to do nothing and that is just as bad. That makes you lemmings as well.
You are not the center of the universe. You are just as unimportant as everyone else in this world, but you are so over-privileged and stuck in the bubble of this neighborhood that you have no concept of the real world. It's sad. You also missed out on the opportunity to grow and meet people who are genuine. I'm sorry for your loss.
You are all very sad I pray for you all because you don't even know how very sad and empty you are.
