Mayhew Funeral Home.....

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by Jmo77011

Actually, his business is in a busy COMMERCIAL zone. As for contaminating the water supply...really? I'd love to see actual facts on that.

Come on buddy, picture this; you have been living in your single family home on a Meredith residential road for the last THIRTY-THREE years.....you are 71 years of age.....paying your Meredith property taxes there for the last 33-years...since 1978....and one day....a large mobile crane rolls up across the road.....and installs a propane fired, crematorium oven complete with a tall stainless steel chimney into the funeral home there.....directly across your little residential road... with no UP-FRONT NOTICE ahead of the time of the installation!

Just what the heck was Meredith Code Enforcement Officer, Bill Edney, thinking when he made his administrative decision on this item?

And how Mr. Jmo77011, would you like for that to happen to you?

[jmen24]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Just what the heck was Meredith Code Enforcement Officer, Bill Edney, thinking when he made his administrative decision on this item?

He was thinking that legally he had no ground to stand on to deny the request to add this feature to the funeral home.

Judging by the responses received in this thread. I am thinking the dealer is holding a few cards back. Why else would the neighbor take this tact for dealing with this issue when Skip pointed out a very viable process.

[Jmo77011]

Mayhew has been there since 1983...28 years. It's a commercially zoned area, love it or lump it. Honestly, I'd probably have some sympathy for this woman if she wasn't bothering mourners in such an outlandish and disrespectful manner. I can't imagine having to deal with that while trying to bury a loved one.

[sa meredith]

Originally Posted by Jmo77011

Mayhew has been there since 1983...28 years. It's a commercially zoned area, love it or lump it. Honestly, I'd probably have some sympathy for this woman if she wasn't bothering mourners in such an outlandish and disrespectful manner. I can't imagine having to deal with that while trying to bury a loved one.

...and I can't imagine they were allowed to build a crematorium near residential homes, forcing residents to deal with that, with no public hearing before the fact.
So...she has to deal with them, why should they not have to deal with her.
As stated previously...if it were me, the funeral home would quickly gain a reputation as a place that you simply did not want to hire. My parties would be loud, and frequent.
The funeral home aspect...fine. No problem.
When they installed the furnace??? Sorry, all bets are off.
Wrong wrong wrong. Someone paved the way for this to thru with no hearing.
Do you have any idea how much the quality of a neighbors life would change.
These things smell...and smell bad.
SAMIAM...how would like to have bodies burning for your customers to smell as they entered VK.
Or maybe a garbage transfer station right next door, for the smells to waft over your way on a hot summer afternoon. It would change things...wouldn't it? I'm sure you see the point.
Very surprised at people's inability to see the other side of this issue.
She is a elerderly woman. Other than being a nuisance, she honestly has very little recourse.
But, alas, the "piling on" mentallity of this forum shines thru.

[SAMIAM]

I see the point, SA.......definitely would not want them next door......just couldn't help but make light of it because it was getting so crazy.....men in black, outside speakers, goulish sounds, chain rattling.