17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
We require people who have syphilis to divulge who their sex partners were. I don't know if it's a good idea or not, but I haven't heard of any activist movement against it in the past 80-odd years it's been in effect. We require property owners who don't have city-sewage hookups, to install their septic tanks and maintain them in certain defined configurations which estop them from contaminating the neighbor's well. I don't know if that's a good idea or not - but I haven't seen sentiment against sewage regulation of property owners. So why should we be terribly upset about an ordinance which makes it illegal to operate a residential kitchen and a residential sewge-disposal operation in a city park or a city sidewalk?