Re: hi from Idaho

On Jul 25, 4:49=A0pm, Pat Kight <kig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Steve Pope wrote:
> > Pat Kight =A0<kig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> Steve Pope wrote:
>
> >>> Pat Kight =A0<kig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>> Whatever happened to just nailing a basketball backboard
> >>> to the side of the garage roof?
>
> >> It's a Victorian-era historic district. A lot of the houses don't
have
> >> garages, or if they do, they're old carriage houses tucked away
behind
> >> the house, down gravel drives that aren't good basketball surfaces.
My
> >> own garage is *under* my house, occupying half of the daylight
basemen=
t,
> >> and my short driveway slopes sharply down to access it (no, you
probab=
ly
> >> couldn't put a modern car in it. My Beetle wouldn't fit, even if it
> >> didn't bottom out on the downward slope). Homeowners are also
> >> discouraged from attaching non-historic elements to the structures.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > So if there were a historic, Victorian-era basketball backboard nailed
> > to the side of a structure, would you be prohibited from
> > removing it?
>
> No; you're only prohibited from removing period architectural elements
> (and they can be removed if you go through a hearing process and
> demonstrate what you're going to do to preserve the house's historical
> integritey).
>
> > (It is a Victorian era game, although probably late Victorian era...)
>
> If my house had dome with a Victorian era basketball hoop that was in
> good shape, I'd totally have left it in place. Although I might have
> trained some clematis around it...
>

Nice image.

Lane