Disclaimer: THE FOLLOWING MAY CONTAIN ERRORS. It was written in haste as this website is under constant hack attacks.
Regretfully this page was hacked and will not be repaired anytime soon. Rather than the eradication of corruption within the local government, now any inquiries to the German Township Codes Department or the Clark County Government made by us receive no replies, answers, or acknowledgments. Our Government appears broken offering no assistance or consideration yet continue to take money for the "service" of having such a department; in fact they doubled their taxes upon the citizenry recently.
Having made a purchase of an Ohio 1+ acres of property with a house and couple of other buildings, my mother went to meet with the Codes Inspector, George Degenhart.
Initially my 73 year old mother met with George Degenhart, the German Township Codes Enforcer, and stated her son's intents (I'm her son), and that I wanted to operate a home-based business.
She inquired of George Degenhart as to what the requirements were for a home-based business and he asked her as to what type of business it would be.
After informing him, she was told by the Codes Enforcement Officer that there were no requirements and that her son (me) ought to do as he and his wife do (pertaining to a sign) and to put up a sign for a period as specified (allowable 45days), and that following the allowable time-frame, take the sign down for a week, after which it would be able to be re-erected for another allowable term, and that he was not going to be religiously checking on the sign anyway.
So Three days after I moved in, the sign went up.
Two days later we were being threatened for $100.00 per day monetary forfeiture and criminal proceedings.
Since I was being threatened against having the lawful sign and home-based business, it was decided to succumb to the manipulation and take the 4-square foot sign back down.
However, so that friends, family, and past customers can locate the property (now that a sign was not being permitted), a mailbox was clad and constructed to appear as a computer, and was checked firstly with the Post Office before any such work commenced. After I completed the project, the mail carrier was also confronted and assented that since I had not altered the placement of the mailbox and since it is accessible, that it met the Federal stipulations.
But the German Township Codes Compliance Officer made the statement that the mailbox should be removed (no reason given).
The German Township doesn't have a shred of jurisdiction over my mailbox, the Federal Government does, so I refused.
Then one sunny day, two O.D.O.T. trucks under police escort were recorded in a Mailbox Drive-By, and the mailbox was damaged and brought down.
Situation Contained
This is the second time the mailbox was destroyed in like fashion. I did not have the cameras connected during the first drive-by. So I was thinking maybe the State made the complaint about me installing cameras? I'll stop back someday with a snapshot photo of the collection of old mailboxes in the back garage.
The German Township Polity also offer other advantages to buying property here. For instance, We get to hear lies of "Numerous Complaints" against me (made in less weeks than one has digits on a hand).
Initially, I made numerous requests for the copies of the "numerous" complaints against me. All were either ignored, in violation of FOIA (freedom of information act), FOIL (Freedom of information law), the "Sunshine Law" (seriously), or whatever else they're calling being "open and honest" this year. However one time, prior to finally receiving a solitary redacted questionable complaint, the D.A. of Clark County in Springfield Ohio responded by sending incorrect Case Law of an irrelevant use of restricting common information. In fact, the case law the D.A. sent was more in bolstering my claim for information as being allowable by law (the case law he sent to me showed redacting/obfuscating was permissible only when an underage child was involved.
Through much perseverance I requested copies of the "complaints" against me (several requests were made through email and through telephone conversations, and later after realizing I was being ignored, I evolved to actual physical letters requesting an "open and honest transparency in Government" to produce a copy of the complaints against me.
Those "numerous" complaints melted down to a solitary (probably fraudulent) complaint. A privileged class should not indulge in flat-out-right lying (deceitfulness). If they are no better than the rabble then why not replace them with the lower-class citizens and save some money (the lower classes would still be making a step-up even if the upper-class pay was reduced.
Of the whole ONE complaint (stating I was installing cameras and other than that I got nothing out of the document), the complaint could not possibly be verified as being authentic because it was for the most part, completely redacted out with a marker (not that there was much to redact in the first place. If the plutocrats want to outlaw my putting up cameras then they ought to consider dumping their stocks in the monopolies that are selling those terrible items to us.
Pertaining to any claim of a legal right to redact a simple complaint is a place for our Law Universities to muse over. I could not determine if the arguably unlawful redacting was made by the German Township Polity, or its Clark County Persecutor (who seemed more intent on sending me his legal right to redact using child law to bolster his claim (no kidding, it's apparently the only thing that can bypass the "Sunshine Law" concerning openness and transparency in Government. Whereas if a child is involved, redacting would be admissible (by their laws).
However I'm not a child.
Wouldn't anyone find that unnecessarily antagonistic? To be first told of mountains of complaints, then to find it was only one one complaint, then receiving said document and finding it as being all blacked out with a marker (who hides information? forfeiters, or thieves to hide stolen goods, or children do this....shouldn't the upper-class be less uncouth than those they lord over?).
Imagine being told that someone made a complaint against you but no person can be verified as having done so.
We should be ashamed of ourselves as a nation to have let this caveman-style dictatorial polity to bask in such myopia. The way to a faithful, cheerful citizenry is not to oppress and rob them! And when the damage begins, it's damn-hard to recoup the minds and souls of the masses back to prideful, trustworthy, faithful, production. Nice going. Seems like a good spot to plug in the fate we are facing so before you chase any more money away from Springfield, consider your fate in this also: Bad Directions
Unless an underage child made the solitary (also known as numerous) complaint(s) against me, then it's lawful to be honest and open, and I ought to be permitted to know and address the accuser. The Codes Department stated it was my neighbors that made the complaints so I confronted the neighbors and recorded the conversations that show this to be a lie (is that good ? Or bad?). Is the accuser real at all? If the complainant was underage, is it lawful for an underage person to file a complaint? And if so, at what age do they become enforceable? Should a six-year old be the impetus behind the Codes Department's enforcement? If you said, "yes", then what if the 6 year old complains about Walmart or Best Buy, will that prompt a shut-down and threats to be levied against the monopolies too (because if so, I have a boat-load of complaints to file)? Since none of my immediate neighbors have underage children in their houses, how do we know this entire attack is not conjured up and unwarranted by the same entity that told the apparent misinformation claiming my neighbors as being the root of the complaint?
Another time came a call wondering where I'm laying my head at night (best as I can tell anyway).
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George Degenhart works for the German Township in Springfield Ohio as a Codes Enforcer, he hasn't any legal right to threaten people, exploitation by means of threats, of causing harm through utilizing criminal proceedings, monetary forfeitures, investigations, or other intrusions via mail, telephone, etc.
George Degenhart is a Codes Enforcer and has limited functions.
To make matters worse, the very inspector is the one that is guilty of the very things he's accused me of.
Having an interest to know if my mother had related the conversation between George Degenhart and her, we drove by his house. The driveway on the left (no, i'm not looking at google earth and yes, it's from memory pertaining to details, but as you drive into his driveway and notice the house and chimney on the right, directly ahead you will see a somewhat long garage.
1.) He and his wife were/are running an illegitimate business
2.) The business is being operated out of their detached garage
A home-based business must be from within the living space itself and cannot be a detached building, according to his own codes book.
3.) The Degenhart's had/have a sign for their illegitimate business right above the garage door yet a sign permit could not be found.
Here in the German Township of Springfield Ohio we also enjoy the overstepping of the local polity in Advising us to change the color of the lights (inside the home, which is a topic contained on one of the other pages of this website).
January 7 2022 update: Upon coming across this page it has occurred to me that information should be updated to reflect my sentiment of the German Township and Springfield Ohio.
I'm old so don't hold your breath on the new and improved content spilling forth anytime soon, unfortunately.
Suffice to say, I like living in Ohio. And despite much that is expressed within this and other pages of this website, Springfield Ohio is an awesome place if you like good soil, good people, cool seasons, low crime (despite the propaganda), good water, and from my perspective, opportunity is everywhere here.
If I were 50 years younger I'd be scooping up all the vacant properties that Springfield has to offer. With the coming global destabilization and increasing storms taking out entire areas that were formerly habitable, those American refugees are going to need spaces...If for no other better reason.
