Oh, you mean: The National Parks: Ken Burns' Most Boring Documentary to Date?

Followed by: Ken Burns: What's with the Haircut?

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The National Parks.  Not boring.  And it is ironic Paul.  Nice and timely connection.

The City Council will not bow to the property owner.

Z! You know you agree! Just admit it and life will be easier.

I also unironically enjoy "National Parks."

I like the Parks show as well. The large dose of rah rah America is a little tiresome, but everything else is good.

The rich, oppressed, scenic-vista-owning minority is revolting via the DNT comment section.  John Muir, my new hero (thanks to Ken Burn's ALWAYS right-on documentoring), said it's an inevitable reaction when the public asserts their interests.

Then again we could privatize (early Niagara style) all the scenic overlooks on Skyline to let the free market determine the real value of the vistas by charging residents and tourists to view the overlooks.

Now we can start looking into whether that wall obscuring the view from a National Scenic Byway is there legally.

May I ask how/where you found out? Thanks.

Clever landscaping would have been a better solution than all of this. They could have planted buffer trees between the house and overlook. I think the issue they might have been concerned with is the late night drinking that goes on at the pullouts if the cig butts and beer trash are any indication. Some people are pigs.

I'd be inclined to believe no one did their homework on laws/guidelines concerning wall construction along a National Scenic Byway. City and state, yes. National, I doubt it.

I wonder what the Internets has to say?

I think development rules still go back to local government/zoning. Otherwise I'd expect the Scenic Byway Program to be directly involved with permitting.  Their function seems to be mostly tourism promotion, not regulation.

I hereby swear that the next time I'm in Duluth, I will make a special trip by this place and lay on my air horns.

Believe it.

What's going to happen to that fence this winter when the snowplows need to deposit the snow on that side of the road? Perhaps that fence will be a bygone.

Watching the National Parks series... something to think about... parks aren't zoned into existence. You need to take an ultra-wealthy industrialist hiking. 

I think you have to look beyond zoning, if zero development of private land is desired. It starts to become an issue of ownership. Perhaps other vacant Skyline parcels could be acquired through a voluntary land swap, or with land sale proceeds.