As if we didn't have anything more important for our city staff to be doing, they have taken the liberty to devote a considerable amount toward crafting yet another ordinance to regulate more emphatically their idea of how we all ought to be living our lives at home.  Some months ago, in response to neighborhood objections to the McMansion invasion taking place on the streets northeast of Greenville and Spring Valley, city staffers realized their arsonal of regulations was short on restrictions to such activity.  Now that the cows have left the barn, their idea of a fix is to have a group of neighbors join hands and impose restrictions on everybody in the neighborhood...in every neighborhood!  Nevermind the reason that most people don't join HOA's is because they don't want nosey neighbors telling them how to conduct their lives at home.  With a democratic stuffing down the throat, they'll come around to the idea.

The citizens of Richardson got an unexpected surprise over the weekend in the form of news, not through that magnificent communications system the new Council lauched following the last election, but from the regional rag that occasionally latches on to hot button issues the public can understand.