"Officials" Say Camping on Your Own Property Is Now Illegal! Off-the-grid Living Will Get You Jail Time!
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Costilla County, CO — Across the U.S., local zoning officials are making it increasingly difficult for people to go off the grid, in some instances threatening people with jail time for collecting rainwater or not hooking into local utilities.
As zoning laws have increasingly targeted the off-grid lifestyle, many have moved to the Southwestern U.S. as an escape from overzealous zoning officials.
In Costilla County, Colorado, there has been a major influx of off-grid residents to the San Luis Valley. The combination of lax zoning regulations, cheap property, and an already thriving community of self-reliant off-grid homesteaders has led to many new residents.
The off-grid lifestyle, enjoyed by an estimated 800 people, is now being threatened as county officials have recently made moves to essentially regulate and license the lifestyle into oblivion.
Tensions boiled over during a county commissioners’ meeting in San Louis, Colorado, devolving into a shouting match between homesteaders and police. One of the major points of contention is the county’s attempt to ban camping on your own property, in an effort to force the off-grid homesteaders back onto the grid.
“We are residents who have come to live off the grid. It’s all our land.” … “These are harsh economic times. We have nowhere to go,” twenty-year resident Paul Skinner said.
“We’ve been regulated out of life,” homesteader Robin Rutan told Colorado Public Radio. “I came here because I couldn’t live by the codes [in other regions].”
The county, which requires residents to have a camping permit to live in an RV, “small house” or other camp style home, has started to simply refuse the renewal of these permits.
This is obviously a major problem for homesteaders, who often live in such accommodations while building their permanent residents.
“They started enforcing the changes before they were actually made,” resident Chloe Everhart said.
Everhart said she performed due diligence prior to buying her land, with one of the most important aspects of the plan being a 90-day camping permit. Without a 90-day permit, camping on residential plots is only allowed for 14 days per every three months.
But just as Everhart was arriving, the board of commissioners instructed the planning and zoning commission to no longer issue camping permits.
In spite of her best efforts, Everhart is now an outlaw.
County land use administrator Matt Valdez disputes the claims that the county is trying to regulate people’s lifestyles out of existence. He says that his office has discretion to deny camping permits under existing code and claims that too many new residents were habitually renewing permits meant to be temporary.
“We’re not trying to drive people off their property,” Valdez said.
Valdez said he simply wants to make sure already established rules are followed for aesthetic and safety reasons.
The vilification of people who choose to live an alternative lifestyle is extremely commonplace in modern America.
While there may be legitimate issues that need to be addressed, people have a right to use land that they own in the manner they see fit. To use the technicalities of the law to essentially evict people from land they own reeks of tyrannical overreach and oppression of personal liberty.
Update: The county has dropped it’s planned zoning changes under increased public scrutiny, but they continue to refuse to issue 90-day camping permits to the off-grid land owners.
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Corporations need a contract. Look up these county guys in Dunn and Bradstreet.
absolutely
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I have lived in Mexico for 9 years. A good portion of the population lives off the grid due to economics. Why deal with it when you can buy an acre of land for $50.00 and take years to build your home. Why do people even put up with whats going on in the states, For 4 years I have been writing on moving and living in Mexico. Nothing changes if nothing changes. It gets to the point to where you either stop complaining and accept it or move out. If you feel you are betraying your country it’s the other way around. If you stay and fight you will die. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN. CONTACT ME AND I WILL HELP ANY WAY I CAN. But do it before they call marshall law and shut down the borders. And that has already started. It’s getting harder and harder to leave the U S. Wake up the gov’t has taken over the national parks, you can’t have a garden, your kids get arrested for selling Ice tea. Is that how you want to live. Every country sees whats going on in the U S wxcpt for the U S citizen. If not for yourseld fro the safety of your family get out.
Isn’t this where the 2nd amendment comes into play?
Correcto. Only a matter of time before tar, features and something stronger are applied.
whats with all the comercials lately
cw said, “The vilification of people who choose to live an alternative lifestyle is extremely commonplace in modern America.”
Actually look at the faces and qualifications of these effete seatwarmers, which are in the public domain, so that everyone should be familiar with their physical appearance, education, and family background. Learn everything you can.
Ask yourself who should be vilified.
And, consider your wording, when saying that white, rugged individualists, in America, are living an alternate lifestyle.
Some of the people posting here have mentioned contract law.
fwiw –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration#cite_note-1
So, what value do the stuffed suits have to offer, in any sort of negotiation.
Permits? Who asks permission from a servant?
These private corporate regulations cannot be applied to a living human being without their consent. Here is a comment I made on another similar article about a government code making it illegal to feed the homeless, well the same applies here. Please read the information I am giving you:
Citizens don’t have to consent to comply with these corporate regulations. All cities, counties, states and the federal government are private corporations listed on Dunn & Bradstreet doing business for profit, they are defacto not dejure (real) governments. All codes, statutes, and administrative rules are in fact corporate regulations that cannot be applied to a living human being without their consent; you are deliberately never told you don’t have to consent.
American citizens (including police, and government employees) have been programmed to believe they must consent and comply with these corporate regulations or else, but this just isn’t true. I once believe this my self until I began studying law over thirty years ago. Citizens don’t have to consent to give their corporate courts jurisdiction over them either. They must have your consent. The thing is you need to know how to deny consent, and you’ll never get that information from a lawyer. Lawyers know you must give consent, but if they told you they would have no clients; judges know, but they will lose their jobs (and the personal profit they make off you) if they were to let that information out. I will give you the information you need to learn the truth about American history and how to deny consent, but you must read it and do your own research. You must educate yourself, and if you don’t you deserve what you get.
Here is a list of books for you to read that are available in pdf (you need Adobe Reader to read them) on the internet: “The Great American Adventure Secrets Of America” 2nd. ed. 2015 by retired federal judge Rodney Dale; “Lawfully Yours” 9th ed. a little booklet by the website http://www.anticorruptionsociety.com based on the judge dale material, including the notices of non-consent that you can print out. The judge Dale book can be found on this website and you can order these two publications in print there. All the material in these books is true.
If you decide you want more truth and legal case citations that will shock you you can and should read these books available for free in pdf on the internet: “Cracking The Code 3rd ed”., “Redemption Manual 4.5”, as well as “A Fruite From A Poisonous Tree Secrets that were never to be revealed” by Melvin Stamper J.D.; “UCC and You”. Basically the only law in effect for all of us today is contract law under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Therefore you must learn about contract law. When you are dealing with police or any government official they are offering to contract with you and you must learn how to let them know you don’t want to contract with them. For example, a traffic citation is an offer to contract with you, therefore you can cancel that contract within three business days because it is a contract and there is nothing they can do about it. These defacto governments have no authority without your consent. The first two publications mentioned above will tell you how to do that. Please WAKE UP!!!
Another recommended source of legal books and information in pdf is: http://www.sedm.org. You will get a legal education at this website. I have lots of research material and truth you never learned in school if you would like it.
Shouldn’t the municipalities being applauding these people for reducing their carbon footprint and helping to reduce Climate Change? This just goes to show how bogus the whole governmental agenda really is.
Rather than government being a protector of rights in a free society, it has morphed into a tyrannical system of controlling people for the benefit of a small number of rulers. The sycophants that run this vast prison ward are your bureaucratic slobs that aren’t much different than the SS or Gestapo.
Fruit for thought: Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience to Authority.
How and why has governmental edict (privilege derived from the governed) become superior to the inherent rights of the governed (life, liberty and property)?