Grandmother ordered to vacate, destroy treehouse home of 24 years

[singular_me]

another symptom of a sick society... they are more after controlling her life/income than the three house.

I hope for her that donations are flooding in, so she can afford construction requirements.

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Grandmother ordered to vacate, destroy treehouse home of 24 years
2 October 2016 GMT

‘A Florida entrepreneur with a penchant for the unconventional is having her entire life turned upside down by code enforcement officials who insist that her humble abode of 24 years isn’t fit for habitation, and thus must be torn down within the next three months.

Even though Shawnee Chasser has been living in her fully-equipped treehouse for decades without issue, this 65-year-old grandmother is learning firsthand what the government is capable of when given the authority to decide how people can use their own private property.

According to Miami-Dade County code enforcement division director Ricardo Roig, Chasser’s treehouse was built illegally and can’t be brought up to code. There is therefore no other option than to have it removed for safety reasons.’

http://www.naturalnews.com/055491_treehouse_Florida_nanny_state.html

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Shawnee Chasser found a higher standard of living 25 years ago when she moved into a tree house.

Now, she has to come down.

A claustrophobic flower child with purple streaks in her graying curls, Chasser has spent the last year fighting Miami-Dade County over the fate of the wood cottage where she lives, nestled against the forked trunks of an oak and strangler fig in the wooded front yard of her late son’s Biscayne Gardens home.

To Chasser, it’s a suburban Eden preferable to the walls, windows and air conditioning of a house.

But the county says the open-air chateau was built illegally, is unsafe and must be demolished in the next four months. Chasser — who once marched from California to D.C. as part of an anti-nuclear arms protest — says that will never happen, setting up an only-in-Miami showdown between a $7 billion government and a 65-year-old grandmother who sells bags of organic popcorn at Whole Foods.

“I’m not taking down anything,” Chasser vowed during an interview. “I’ll chain myself to that tree house.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article99662117.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/34pmhb-treehouse.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_560/treehouse.jpg


The cottage, which can’t be seen from the street, is off to the south side of “Shawnee’s Paradise,” on the corner of Be Here Now Street and Joshua’s Way, an ode to her late son, who died inside his house in 2009 of a heart attack. The property — recently featured by the Tiny House Giant Journey travel blog — is just under a half-acre of wooded lawn stretched around a man-made pond and waterfall and hiding from its surroundings behind a hedge.

The home belongs to a land trust run by Chasser’s daughter. Chasser makes the property available to tenants who want to rent rooms, a mini-camper, or even set up tents in the front yard. It’s partly about sharing her simple life, but it helps her pay the bills too, along with proceeds from Shawnee’s Greenthumb Popcorn, which she mass-produces and sells in Whole Foods stores around Florida.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEGbU8qTbc
The county’s issue with Chasser’s abode isn’t specifically that she lives there, Roig said, but that it’s unsafe. Roig said South Florida has strict rules about building code because of the frequency of hurricanes, and added that running water and electricity have to be installed with permits and inspections. He said Chasser is welcome to live in a legal tree house, but code and unsafe-structure inspectors looked at the cottage and found it constructed in a way that it can’t be brought up to county standards. This week, the county’s unsafe structures board agreed and gave her three months to tear the tree house down.

Chasser, who has already paid $3,000 in fines, potentially faces more than $7,000 in additional liens, according to the county.

“They’re creating a campground out there. You just can’t go into a residential property and start charging outsiders to come in. We’ve got neighbors who we’ve got to protect their rights also,” Roig said. “It’s just a combination of situations that haven’t been well thought out.”

Chasser is incredulous. Her brother’s tree house in Miami is treated like a landmark and included in official marketing material from the county’s tourism bureau. It also survived Hurricane Andrew.

Chasser says she can’t afford to hire an engineer or architect to come help her bring her property up to code. Plus, even if she could, she said, the county tells her she would still have to apply to the zoning department for permission to inhabit the units outside the main home on the property.

But Chasser isn’t giving up. The county’s unsafe structures board allows for appeals and requests for additional hearings, and she said she’s talking with her attorney, Sheleen Khan, about all her options.

One non-starter: moving. Chasser notes that the bags that carry Shawnee’s Greenthumb Popcorn celebrate a certain unusual style of living, and she doesn’t want to be guilty of false advertising.

“It says on the back that I live in a tree house,” she said. “So I have to keep living in a tree house.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article99662117.html#storylink=cpy

[brosil]

Yeah,it's wrong. Tell me, is it illegal to be homeless in Fla? Do they require everyone to live in a certified home? Are they arresting homeless folks en masse? .gov bums. Bah!

[Ares]

another symptom of a sick society... they are more after controlling her life/income than the three house.

No just ignorance of law, A simple response back requesting jurisdiction and justification that compels performance should be enough to shut them up. If not sue them in their individual capacities as well as their spouses for accessories to deprivation of rights for profit and watch how fast the issue disappears.

[singular_me]

just ranting here: yeah, thats the law... I know that song... now even a 10yo girl needs to have a permit to sell lemonade. Thats the law, get authorization to get married. Give the finger and they will take the whole arm.



this three house had been there for many, many years... why waiting for so long, everybody knew it was there. So the county should give more options and HELP her stay there.

[Ares]

yeah, thats the law... I know that song... now even a 10yo girl needs to have a permit to sell lemonade. Thats the law, get authorization to get married.

this three house had been there for many, many years... why waiting for so long, everybody knew it was there. So the county should give more options and HELP her stay there.

Why? The county is under no obligation to help anyone. You ask for help, consent to the rules / regulations / red tape that goes with it. Go for the jugular and sue them all the way up to the state governor for not protecting your rights.

[singular_me]

if the county has not intervened, say a decade ago or more sooner, I am not saying that it should help financially (gosh no lefist solution plz) but remain open minded and welcome useful solutions instead of ultimatum.

In my code of ethics, the gov is wrong 90% of the time anyway, and I am not sure your solution to sue them for not protecting one's rights would work at this stage. But she contacted a lawyer and I will post updates.





Why? The county is under no obligation to help anyone. You ask for help, consent to the rules / regulations / red tape that goes with it. Go for the jugular and sue them all the way up to the state governor for not protecting your rights.

[Ares]

if the county has not intervened, say a decade ago or more sooner, I am not saying that it should help financially (gosh no lefist solution plz) but remain open minded and welcome useful solutions instead of ultimatum.

In my code of ethics, the gov is wrong 90% of the time anyway, and I am not sure your solution to sue them for not protecting one's rights would work at this stage. But she contacted a lawyer and I will post updates.

Because that is the only tool the state has. Ultimatums, so you have to counter with your own ultimatums and make it personally unappealing to the parties involved to continue down the path of using the state as the preferred weapon to enforce codes which have zero weight in law.

She absolutely cannot use a lawyer, she's already admitted that she is an invalid and in the eyes of the state does not have rights. That unfortunately is the truth, whenever you seek help from a bar carrying attorney the state considers you an invalid.

[monty]

She should have proved up on her land patent.

[palani]

Patent or not ... engaging your dwelling into the stream of commerce is not going to have happy results. Having a street address, having electrical or sewage hookup, or water. Asking for a permit for permission to modify. Asking for help in an emergency. These are all actions that tell bureaucracy that you want to or actually are subject to their codes and authority.

[Ponce]

The "LAW" is the chain around your neck that the money grabbers will make as tight as they want to get from you what they want.

V

[madfranks]

Chasser says she can’t afford to hire an engineer or architect to come help her bring her property up to code. Plus, even if she could, she said, the county tells her she would still have to apply to the zoning department for permission to inhabit the units outside the main home on the property.


But Chasser isn’t giving up. The county’s unsafe structures board allows for appeals and requests for additional hearings, and she said she’s talking with her attorney, Sheleen Khan, about all her options.
So she can't afford an architect to help her get up to code, but she can hire an attorney? An architect could help her in a very practical way, and for 1/3 the cost of a lawyer. Too bad I'm not licensed in Florida otherwise I might reach out to help.

[crimethink]

another symptom of a sick society...


Actually, it's a sickness that she herself helped create. There is no doubt whatsoever that she is an ultra-leftist, and supports Hillary Clinton, and the Bolshevism for which she stands.

As I've said before, those who worship "The Law" deserve to be victims of it.

All along she supported the enforced-at-gunpoint "civil rights" statutes, forcing White people to rent to Nigger trash or bake cakes for sexual degenerates, but now she shrieks when total government has come for her.


Chasser — who once marched from California to D.C. as part of an anti-nuclear arms protest — says that will never happen, setting up an only-in-Miami showdown between a $7 billion government and a 65-year-old grandmother who sells bags of organic popcorn at Whole Foods.


Enjoy the fruits of that which you planted.

[singular_me]

I think we all have done or still happen to do do some foolish things because at some point we didnt realize or forget about the full the extend of brainwashing

I also bought in the amazon.com cartel and it cost me almost 200 bucks (3 months ago)

so go ahead thrown the first rock if that makes you feel smart

she is a grandma today and who **once** marched from California to D.C. as part of an anti-nuclear arms protest ... wow... I dont mind people marching against the war cartel.... WHOEVER they are. She has merits too since she is not getting a disability pay check but selling her popcorn. At least something.

CT, your heart is in desperate need for compassionate feelings. But your post is aimed at me and not madfrank for example who mentions that he'd help her out if he could... Revealing.

Show your compassion and you are an absolute leftist. Gotcha! And of course you hope to topple the NWO with such a thinking of yours?

[singular_me]

here is another granny story that I feel compelled to share. Twice or thrice a week I watch several videos like this one, to remind me that my ideals (caring about mankind regardless of the culture) are worth it. Not caring about the side effects of intervention/invasion/colonization is a great evil in itself. Agafia got thrown into this life because of war, she paid the heavy price. Like many.



Published on Apr 9, 2013

In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia's vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled in the Sayan Mountains, 160 miles from any other sign of civilization. In 1944, Agafia Lykov was born into this wilderness. Today, she is the last surviving Lykov, remaining steadfast in her seclusion. In this episode of Far Out, the VICE crew travels to Agafia to learn about her taiga lifestyle and the encroaching influence of the outside world.

2,424,785 views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68

[crimethink]

CT, your heart is in desperate need for compassionate feelings.


LOL

She sowed, and now she reaps. She is the quintessence of hypocrite. She gloated when "The Law" was inflicted on others, but shrieks now that it is inflicted on her.

She has no compassion when family-owned businesses are utterly destroyed for refusing to bake cakes for faggots. She has no compassion when a small landlord doesn't want to destroy the safe community he owns by renting to thugs, and then suffers greatly for exercising that right.

I have compassion for those who don't repeatedly try to destroy others. This bitch is part of The Problem, and a rabid one at that. She should find a new home in one of the "diverse" neighborhoods she thinks only the "White bigots" should have to endure.

[crimethink]

Our dimwitted "scholar" doesn't understand this, but the only question about Chasser's politics is this: did she support Hillary Clinton from the start, or did she switch from being a Berner?

She wanted government control, and now she gets government control.

I wonder if Mark Dice or someone would be willing to interview her, and catch her hypocrisy on camera? That'd be a hoot.


A comment on one of the blogs covering this:

Tracy September 8, 2016 at 9:44 am

Liberals vote for these moronic bureacraPs and liberals will have to deal with what they voted for!! Sometimes, a punch of reality to the head is exactly what is needed.

[crimethink]

Of course there's more to this story!

http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/watercooler/2016/09/03/county-tells-grandma-remove-her-treehouse-miami/89840474/

Shawnee Chasser, left, and daughter (((Wren Levy)))

A land trust run by Chasser's daughter bought the home in 2013. Chasser makes the property available to tenants who want to rent rooms, a mini-camper, or even set up tents in the front yard. It helps her pay the bills, along with proceeds from Shawnee's Greenthumb Popcorn, which she mass produces and sells.

But everything changed about a year ago, when someone called 311 to complain that Chasser was running the property like an apartment complex and campground in the middle of a single-family neighborhood. Chasser, who says she's tight with her neighbors, blames a booted tenant. But the unexpected visit from county code enforcement last September jarred her world.

She was issued a citation for illegally running a rooming house and for work conducted at the property without permits, including the tree house.


This sure sounds more like self-entitlement of a Jew than someone's "rights" being violated. If I lived in a quiet neighborhood, and these Jews set up a blockbusting campground, I'd be pissed, too. Who are the real victims here?


BTW, several articles that originally mentioned the Skype-named daughter were subsequently sanitized to remove her name.

[singular_me]

take your revenge CT... just funny to see, really

on my plate, the gov is 90% of the time WRONG. Period. Sure side with the all the licenses, registrations, permits, any legal aspect of it. Then do not wonder why society today is plagued by man-made laws that are so harmful and also bunk. Side with the IRS willing to fine her big time... ect.... the people who are behind the laws that you point to, are made by the people you dislike the most. And now you defend them. The laws today in america are the result of stretching the constitution to death... what you support obviously

statism is the PROBLEM explaining why we ALL stare into the abyss today

again, I laugh at your stance all the way long. You may never get it though. You are PRO-coercion.

the granny has been left alone for more than 2 decades, and the fact that it is happening NOW because somebody threw a tantrum is completely surreal and a stupid plot. This is HOW I look at the situation.

[crimethink]

again, I laugh at your stance all the way long. You may never get it though. You are PRO-coercion.

I am sorry your cognitive capacity is so limited.

You are supporting Jewesses who are advocates of the Democrat-led corporate state, running a campground-trailer park in the middle of a single-family residential neighborhood. They are the perpetrators, not the victims.

[singular_me]

you lost again, supporting laws that have DESTROYED the constitution, highlights your own poor mental functions.

I will never side with any cartels, regardless of the level of brainwashing anybody is suffering from.

yeah, be happy that the IRS is going to get another piece of pie.




I am sorry your cognitive capacity is so limited.

You are supporting Jewesses who are advocates of the Democrat-led corporate state, running a campground-trailer park in the middle of a single-family residential neighborhood. They are the perpetrators, not the victims.

[crimethink]

I will never side with any cartel

You are siding with the Chasser/Levy LAND TRUST cartel in this very thread!

Stop typing now. It's better for you to be thought a fool, than to keep tapping away and remove all doubt.

[singular_me]

do you understand the dualism/polarity in your thinking here?
liberals need a punch of reality in the head. Then when they get one, your jump in and support the very same liberals with their own laws that you want to see ENFORCED.

You are not out of the woods just yet.

My stance is simpler and non-dual, thus pro-freedom: statism is ALWAYS wrong.





Liberals vote for these moronic bureacraPs and liberals will have to deal with what they voted for!! Sometimes, a punch of reality to the head is exactly what is needed.[/I]

[crimethink]

do you understand the dualism/polarity in your thinking here?
liberals need a punch of reality in the head. Then when they get one, your jump in and support the very same liberals with their own laws that you want to see ENFORCED.

I support laws against rape like liberals also do, and you do not?

[singular_me]

ROFLOL... I am arguing on the basis that human relationships are at the core of the matter. Dont divert the attention.

additionally you are now twisting the argument because I exposed your pro-liberal law enforcement stance to punish the liberals. Laughable.

Everybody can have a trust, one doesnt need to be a millionaire/politician. And if voting for clinton or/and having a jewish name is what gets your enraged in this thread, gosh... go and take a hike.


You are siding with the Chasser/Levy LAND TRUST cartel in this very thread!

Stop typing now. It's better for you to be thought a fool, than to keep tapping away and remove all doubt.

[Twisted Titan]

They’re creating a campground out there. You just can’t go into a residential property and start charging outsiders to come in. We’ve got neighbors who we’ve got to protect their rights also,” Roig said. “It’s just a combination of situations that haven’t been well thought out.”


She didnt give the local mob their cut of the cheese

[singular_me]

what is the LAND TRUST we are talking about here?

it is under a half-acre of wooded lawn stretched around a man-made pond and waterfall and hiding from its surroundings behind a hedge.

evil jews, evil liberals ;D I also typed in the search engine the exact name of the trust and the city, beside other related articles nothing came up on the very fist page.


Twisted Titan maybe closer to the truth in this case. That the county left her alone (in a city like miami) for more than 20 years and run a business of pop corn mass production is indeed suspect.

[singular_me]

the fact the neighbors also did also nothing for so long rather means that she was appreciated but souring relationships do happen. A threehouse that everybody knew about in the area, built without a permit, is definitely raising questions.

Though I didnt see any sign or wealth in her life, she lives modestly and struggles like many others. She doesn't get EBT nor disability paycheck it seems, otherwise it would have been mentioned in the articles, so I'd rather argue in favor of problem solving than see the house being taken down.

The house is above all the symbol of non conformism and that only should be encouraged. Excessive regulations only give people the creativity they can afford. And this suppresses creativity.

But I also see on here and elsewhere how fast people are ready to support contradictions within our orwellian system, hence the enforcers because of cultural/political issues, the same enforcers that ordered to massively spray miami to fight the zika virus, which in fact is poisoning everybody. Something to chew on. One cannot get it all, something will have to be let go if we are serious about getting rid of the NWO.

So again, I laugh all the way long at anybody who seeks bullying me because I refuse to engage in any train of thoughts legitimizimg tyranny.



what is the LAND TRUST we are talking about here?

it is under a half-acre of wooded lawn stretched around a man-made pond and waterfall and hiding from its surroundings behind a hedge.

evil jews, evil liberals ;D I also typed in the search engine the exact name of the trust and the city, beside other related articles nothing came up on the very fist page.


Twisted Titan maybe closer to the truth in this case. That the county left her alone (in a city like miami) for more than 20 years and run a business of pop corn mass production is indeed suspect.

[crimethink]

She didnt give the local mob their cut of the cheese

Her family is the mob. I've been able to confirm that she herself is a Jewess.

I can only imagine just how egregious the behaviors on the property had to be for the government of very-Jewish Miami to take on these Jews.

The target was not the treehouse; it was the campground. Her treehouse is a target now because of her self-entitled behaviors.

[palani]

If this helps ...


Things below grade are not taxed. I suppose if they were then the dead would be subject to taxation.

[singular_me]

post everything you can find about this trust then and show how evil it is... waiting.

In many instances people will use the laws IGNORING their background and hidden purposes. Those laws only benefit those in the know though. They want the house to be taken down too. Those who filed the complain could have done it yearsss ago, so maybe it was not that urgent in the end. Something happened that is not said. The MSM generally inflates what is not that important to divert attention. I am not saying that she is a saint but I just will not support the enforcers.

yes, all jews are part of the mob, well many jews are as much brainwashed as many other cultures (going after the brainwashed is never fruitful) and therefore you must support the same law enforcement that is killing everybody. You are a national *socialist*, says it all.



Her family is the mob. I've been able to confirm that she herself is a Jewess.

I can only imagine just how egregious the behaviors on the property had to be for the government of very-Jewish Miami to take on these Jews.

The target was not the treehouse; it was the campground. Her treehouse is a target now because of her self-entitled behaviors.