Don’t you just hate it when you try to do the right thing and the city does their best to be an obstacle. Replaced my dishwasher with a new one. Borrowed a truck to haul off the old one. Loaded it up and took my Saturday to drive to the recycling center near DuPont. Backed up to dump it into the metal recycling dumpster and was told I couldn’t dump it because the pickup truck I borrowed had a commercial tag.
Understand, this is not a transfer truck, but a shiny pick-up that could just as easily be pulling a bass boat, parked in your neighbor’s driveway or sitting next to you at the shopping mall. Although polite, the city worker told me I should have borrowed someone else’s truck. Needless to say, I was not happy.
It seems that the city is paying people to make rules rather than using common sense. Small wonder why people oppose annexation. My taxes are twice what they are a quarter mile away and you see how it helps me. Now I am stuck with an old dishwasher with no way of getting rid of it. Toss it on the side of the highway? Well, I’m not like that, but it sure is tempting.
Rick Reynolds
Valleybrook
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The perfect example for government staying out of business. They can't
run a recycling center efficiently. A well managed business would never turn away a customer. They are more concerned with who dumps than keeping people from dumping. Why didn't they charge you $15? A scrap yard will give you $5. Free scrap for the city to sell. How efficient is that?
I have rental property in the city (I am trying to sell, trying to replace it with property in North Georgia). They won't let me dump either, although I pay 40% of accessed value on commercial property without any benefits. I never have enough material to rent a dumpster. This is the reason we still have people dumping on the side of the road.
Why don't they let us pay them to dump at the recycling centers, let the people living in surrounding counties and N. Georgia dump, charge us. I could make them a million, for the children, of course.
Chuck Davis