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Swim-gate: Columbia Instructor Sues City Over Backyard Ban
Columbia woman says zoning decision violated her constitutional right to earn a living and use her property… not all of her neighbors agree, though.
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The First thing the other Residents Need to find out is, there Restrictive Covenants against Business being run in the Neighborhood. If there are she is in Trouble! If NOT then they have NO Right to Complain. If the City Originally Approved her Business 7 years ago then she Should be Grandfathered!
This article paints such an awful picture of this business. After a traumatic experience with another local swim school, we found Libby and her lessons got our oldest over her fear of water. We’ve been going back for 6 years. We bring our kids ready to swim, they have a peaceful lesson, and then we are on our way..it’s a quiet process (at least in my experience). Libby has always provided strict instructions so as not to disturb the neighbors. It’s a neighborhood of families with kids, bikes, golf carts. I find it hard to believe that her customers are creating any more of a disturbance than anyone else in the neighborhood.’
The business never met zoning codes for a home occupation. She was conducting swim “camps” from 4p to 5:15p in addition to private lessons according to registration forms easily found online. Don’t let the whitewash fool you.