That's the IHOP developer's right, and it's the right way to handle a dispute like this.

I hope he gets thrown out on his ass by the judge, but at least he's using the appropriate venue for this kind of thing.

Gaear Grimsrud: Where is pancakes house?
Carl Showalter: What?
Gaear Grimsrud: We stop at pancakes house.
Carl Showalter: ...what're you nuts? We had pancakes for breakfast. Gotta go to a place I can get a shot and a beer, steak, maybe, not more farkin' pancakes, c'mon.

Oh, come on, man! Okay, here's an idea; we can stop outside of Brainerd, I know a place there we can get laid. Whaddya think?
Gaear Grimsrud: I'm farking hungry now, you know!

The Waffle House makes IHOP look "international"

Hmm... Comment in the article

I believe that side of Gunbarrel Road is not zoned for restaurants. If you look from Igou Gap Road down to E. Brainerd Road there isn't a single restaurant for a reason. All restaurants are on the other side. If that is what the zoning is there shouldn't be a dispute and Mr. Issa shouldn't be surprised. If he wanted to put a restaurant there he should have checked into it before he purchased the property.

I bet there a civil engineering reason here. I bet the large bore sewer and water lines are on the other side of the road.

AverageAmericanGuy: That's the IHOP developer's right, and it's the right way to handle a dispute like this.

I hope he gets thrown out on his ass by the judge, but at least he's using the appropriate venue for this kind of thing.

Considering there's a Target across the street, I don't think rezoning as commercial seems that out of bounds. I would bet the councilman has a house a street or two away. Seriously though, an Ihop isn't going to affect traffic, etc. in a significant way if it's right across from a Target and Earth Fare.

Anybody else think it awesome that there is a "Gunbarrel Road".

/easily amused

Sounds like someone is butthurt he bought a piece of land with that intent knowing it wasn't zoned properly ahead of time.

CruJones: AverageAmericanGuy: That's the IHOP developer's right, and it's the right way to handle a dispute like this.

I hope he gets thrown out on his ass by the judge, but at least he's using the appropriate venue for this kind of thing.

Considering there's a Target across the street, I don't think rezoning as commercial seems that out of bounds. I would bet the councilman has a house a street or two away. Seriously though, an Ihop isn't going to affect traffic, etc. in a significant way if it's right across from a Target and Earth Fare.

but once you rezone it, others will come.

If the city does not want to rezone. then it doesn't, cant get much more simple then that. A judge should NEVER have the power to overturn a councils wishes in regards to zoning. Only the electorate should have that power at election time.

Developers rarely buy land without having zoning issues figured out. They just put themselves under contract to buy it pending approvals. A re-zoning appeal should look at a lot of factors that are just missing from the article, so I can't really feel strongly for either party. The fact that he's suing says he probably put in an effort to make a decent appeal. If there is a large commercial development on the other side of a fairly major road, it's not out of reason to make that request. There have been council members near me who have tried to stop development simply because they didn't want it, they were sued and lost.

/works for Civil Engineering firm
//first time using slashies
///they're fun

The Waffle House lobby is pretty strong down South.

I hope they don't waffle on the issue. It could really fry a man's nerves. I hope it's over easy.

ScouserDuck: Anybody else think it awesome that there is a "Gunbarrel Road".

/easily amused

You'd love it around Dallas then...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gun+barrel+city (new window)

ScouserDuck: Anybody else think it awesome that there is a "Gunbarrel Road".

/easily amused

nothing in TN surprises me. when I was a kid there was a street named "Lynching Tree Road" in the small town where I lived. as you probably guessed, it was named for a large tree where they use to lynch black that had spoken to white women or otherwise offended. they eventually renamed it, not because of any political correctness or sense of honor, but because the tree was knocked down by a tornado.
and I am sure everyone who has ever been drunk knows about Lynchburg, TN. it was named after a old beech tree that Thomas Roundtree, the original resident, use to lynch "people".

Pancake stories are so yesterday.

It's funny all the fast food places down south have a chicken biscuit on the breakfast menu, but not up north. It would be better than the baconsausageegg biscuits.

It took forever for Olive Garden to get a license to operate in Jacksonville, NC because they guy who owned the only (incredibly shiatty) Italian restaurant in town was on city council. What a coincidence.

Now if the developer had used this video as proof it was something the residents wanted, he would have received his rezoning for almost certain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoKZhaigLQA&feature=player_embedded

ScouserDuck: Anybody else think it awesome that there is a "Gunbarrel Road".

/easily amused

There's a neighborhood in south Austin suburbia with road names like Shootout, Gatling Gun, Six Gun, Shotgun, etc. A little way off is Whiskey River. A larger road in the area (that's been there a lot longer) is Slaughter Lane, to the north.

Google Maps (new window)

ZekeMacNeil: kvinesknows: If the city does not want to rezone. then it doesn't, cant get much more simple then that. A judge should NEVER have the power to overturn a councils wishes in regards to zoning. Only the electorate should have that power at election time.

Under Tennessee law, judges actually have wide latitude to overturn zoning ordinances, though in practice they rarely do.

"City Attorney Mike McMahan said Monday the city has a strong position and the courts usually side with the governing body on zoning matters." (Chattanooga Times (new window))

It bears mentioning that the East Brainerd district is suffering from a bad case of suburban sprawl and I don't think a whole lot of those residents want even more traffic headaches in this area.

A judge MIGHT have authority, but they never should have. I might agree with a Judge having authority IF it was that the council wanted to change it, but it was obvious residents did not (say putting industrial in the middle of a neighbourhood) but to overturn a status quo decision? It would have to be quite a substantial issue ( which a pancake house is most certainly not)

Anything to keep those shiatty, monotonous chain restaurants down is fine with me.

Chattanoogy?!?

ScouserDuck: Anybody else think it awesome that there is a "Gunbarrel Road".

/easily amused

IIRC, there was an armament factory in that area around the Civil War. At least until Sherman appropriated all the inventory.

Meh. Every IHOP I've ever been in has had something wrong with it. I either get cold pancakes, or it's too dirty, etc. Also, are all IHOPs super small? I don't want to hear about how your Aunt Irene had to have her foot cut off while I'm trying to enjoy some pancakes.

\Cold flapjacks are sad things.

germ78: I thought as a rule there were no IHOPs south of the Mason-Dixon line?
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There's one in Orlando that I know of.

LadyMech: Meh. Every IHOP I've ever been in has had something wrong with it. I either get cold pancakes, or it's too dirty, etc. Also, are all IHOPs super small? I don't want to hear about how your Aunt Irene had to have her foot cut off while I'm trying to enjoy some pancakes.

\Cold flapjacks are sad things.

Just had one open around Hilliard, Ohio. We have a late night theatre group that's always looking for an alternative to TeeJayes. 2am, always packed. That's fine, we'll wait. We wait. Finally get a table. Everything's fine, then we order, and then an hour goes by before our food ever appears. Most of it's wrong, most of it's cold. Happens 2 months in a row.

The good side is the manager fired the server, and gave us all free food the second time.

You have not had a real post-bar drunk food experience until you've eaten at a Huddle House.


/IHOP Blows

Have they considered Cox rd or Cox lane? There is an IHOP on Cox in West Chester Ohio, and in in Gastonia, NC.

People at work kept talking about it, I thought they were joking until I was over there. I don't work on Cox so I don't get over there too often.

Screw IHOP. I prefer the all night diner at the filthy truck stop where I once was offered $20 and a ride to Little Rock to give a beej to a 400 lb truck driver.

The pancakes were delicious.

...and free!

No self-respectin' southernah uses instant pancake mix.

The (albeit few) jobs that IHOP would bring to the community just aren't welcome in this economy.

See... I actually like IHOP. It's grimy, cheap, unpretentious, and my roommate hates it, but the pancakes are alright, and I actually rather like some of the omelettes. Get in, get stuffed, get out.

If only they were still open 24 hours. *weep*

how about

dv-ous: See... I actually like IHOP. It's grimy, cheap, unpretentious, and my roommate hates it, but the pancakes are alright, and I actually rather like some of the omelettes. Get in, get stuffed, get out.

If only they were still open 24 hours. *weep*

I'm pretty sure the one in Buckhead is still 24/7.

Bermuda59: The Waffle House lobby is pretty strong down South.

Damnit you beat me to it!germ78: I thought as a rule there were no IHOPs south of the Mason-Dixon line?
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They have plenty of them here in MD and Virginia

This changes EVERYTHING.