Castle Hills Bills Teenager $2,100 For Accident Cleanup

[majormadmax]

Originally Posted by Soviet

Hopefully he won't be.

So you're saying these cities and their residents have no right to exist?

[Soviet]

The residents can exist, of course. But those enclaves have no right to set artificially low speed limits & to harass anyone who's transiting through. Hollywood Park has those "HP" stickers for their residents. Why? For profiling, for goodness' sakes! That is wrong! (Thanks for ruining Harry Potter & Hewlett-Packard, Hollywood Park!)

These communities had the chance to be good, responsible members of Bexar County & they screwed it up. Revoke their right to be independent & harassing. Or they could just give up the harassment, as in the case of the above young man. Why does Castle Hills patrol 410 at all? They're right on the boundary. Leave the accident clean ups & radar running to DPS & SAPD.

Oh, but wait....wait....then Castle Hills misses out on generating revenue on 410? Goodness me, say it isn't so! I thought it was all about SAFETY?! ;-)

[smuboy86]

The residents of those cities legally incorporated and should have the right to pass laws and limits that they deem appropriate as long as they don't violate stale/federal constitutional rights. The world doesn't revolve around your sense of justice. Also 410, where the speed limit is set by TXDOT, cuts through castle hills and it being their jurisdiction they HAVE to respond to accidents.

[smitty12]

Originally Posted by Soviet

The residents can exist, of course. But those enclaves have no right to set artificially low speed limits & to harass anyone who's transiting through. Hollywood Park has those "HP" stickers for their residents. Why? For profiling, for goodness' sakes! That is wrong! (Thanks for ruining Harry Potter & Hewlett-Packard, Hollywood Park!)

These communities had the chance to be good, responsible members of Bexar County & they screwed it up. Revoke their right to be independent & harassing. Or they could just give up the harassment, as in the case of the above young man. Why does Castle Hills patrol 410 at all? They're right on the boundary. Leave the accident clean ups & radar running to DPS & SAPD.

Oh, but wait....wait....then Castle Hills misses out on generating revenue on 410? Goodness me, say it isn't so! I thought it was all about SAFETY?! ;-)

Technically Castle Hills isn't on the boundary. 410 bisects Castle Hills, about 1/3 of the city is inside 410.

So technically San Antonio doesn't have any jurisdiction on that small stretch of 410 to respond to accidents. Obviously DPS does have jurisdiction, but they don't have any fire or ambulance units to respond to accidents on that stretch. It has to be either Bexar County or Castle Hills for fire response and I don't think Bexar county will respond anywhere there are city services available.

[majormadmax]

Originally Posted by Soviet

The residents can exist, of course. But those enclaves have no right to set artificially low speed limits & to harass anyone who's transiting through. Hollywood Park has those "HP" stickers for their residents. Why? For profiling, for goodness' sakes! That is wrong! (Thanks for ruining Harry Potter & Hewlett-Packard, Hollywood Park!)

These communities had the chance to be good, responsible members of Bexar County & they screwed it up. Revoke their right to be independent & harassing. Or they could just give up the harassment, as in the case of the above young man. Why does Castle Hills patrol 410 at all? They're right on the boundary. Leave the accident clean ups & radar running to DPS & SAPD.

Oh, but wait....wait....then Castle Hills misses out on generating revenue on 410? Goodness me, say it isn't so! I thought it was all about SAFETY?! ;-)

Really? Those "enclaves" have every right to do what is allowed under the Texas Government Code, whether you agree with it or not.

And stating that they had a chance to be "good, responsible members of Bexar County" and "screwed it up" couldn't be more hypocritical. What audacity does it take to propose to "revoke their right to be independent & harassing?!?" Who died and crowned you king?

Lastly, whether you like it or not, the state clearly gives these entities the right to post speed limits as long as they abide by state law (which they do), as well with the right to enforce those laws. Just because someone is not adult enough to understand that and cannot accept responsibility if they fail to obey such laws and are caught doing so doesn't mean the laws are wrong. You and anyone else who disagrees with those laws can make every effort to change them, but a democratic society doesn't focus on the opinions of just one person but society in general. Get the majority of citizens to agree with you and the law will change, otherwise your or anyone else's complaining is just pissing in the wind...

I am sure the residents of such enclaves will be more than happy that those who don't want to obey their laws to just stay out of them in the first place.

[Azure110]

To make it fair, COSA should bill any resident of any of the "enclaves" like Castle Hills for accident clean ups they are at fault for in any part of San Antonio property.

Any "enclave" that doesn't bill like Castle Hills should be exempt of course.

I know that is not a realistic solution, but it would nice if that could be enforced.

I don't really buy the "loss of revenue" argument because people from San Antonio bring all kind of business to these "enclaves" like eating at restaurants, buying goods at stores, and of course paying fines. It would seem to me that it all balances out.