Have you examined the budgets of the fire depts ( north and south) or the sheriff? Compared their size to CE's? If you want 24/7 service from CE, as these other groups, you better be prepared for a substantial increase in your property taxes.
If you ( like I) do not want to pay higher taxes so that a CE officer can ride around looking for errant yard sale signs at 3 AM, then I suggest you might want to scale back your expectations. As currently designed CE is supposed to respond to violations after the fact, something that can easily wait for regular business hours. I have never heard of someone dying because a tree was cut in error or a sign was erected in the wrong place. The Sheriff and Fire people should be reserved for criminal or life/death situations, not someone's displeasure at what their neighbor is doing on their property.
So if someone is clear cutting land without a perrmit or filling in wetlands illegally, I wait until they are finished and the irrepairable damage is done, then I make a call?
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