Man Fined for Growing Veggies On His Land

Amen to that.

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I'm betting he liked his location as he was where the money is. He also owns and runs a landscape business.

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LOL!
I'll bet there are more meth labs out in the country than there are in the city. They smell so much it is tough going unnoticed in the city.

The choice of crack house or chicken house is easy.

But, you can get a crack house shut down. Not so easy with a 5 million hen egg factory, 30,000 sow operation or a 10,000 cow dairy.

Seems some anti-zoning folks only look at the part that restricts what can be done on their property and haven't had the peace, quiet, rural tranquility, fresh air and clean water threatend by an industrial neighbor.

It is a simple plan, here is how it works. People in your community are appointed to a committee. They are open to suggestions for what the people of the community want to see their communittee look like in 10 or 20 years. Where would be the most suitable place for commercial buildings, where would be a good place for new homes. Where should the areas remain somewhat untouched. What kinds of development are desireable and what is undesireable. Once they have a Future Land Use projection complete, then you need a zoning ordinance to regulate use, so the things the communittee doesn't want get restricted and the things the committee wants are encouraged. So similar development stays together.

If everyone has done their job, 20 years from now, the community will have areas of development like residential housing, with commercial development in a few specific areas.

To me if you own land do what you want with it. I have had people say stuff to me befor about the smell of hog crap and the bray of my jack. I have told them some choice words. MY LAND and I will do what I want shy of the really stupid stuff such as the meth lab which why would any one want to do that anyway

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Even if it was a "commercial" operation... a $5200 fine for growing veggies is plain stupid. What happened to the days when one might get a warning for this sort of infraction... or at least have the opportunity to try to make it right. From the sounds of the article, this guy tried to contact and negotiate with the government and couldn't get a response.

Instead, they just tried to hammer him by dragging him into court and fining him heavy. Guess they wanted to send a message to all those would-be agri-terrorists. I understand and support rules and laws... but I don't think we need government to slap errant farmers around like they were meth-cooks or toxic polluters.

Like most things in life -- there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. And more and more today it seems like government agencies are not doing things the "right way" simply because they don't have to.

I long for the return of common sense and basic decency in this country.

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I think the key is to find a place, where the possibility of close by neighbors is slim, a place unconducive (sp?) to chicken houses, hog houses, etc. Which sorta pretty much precludes buying any small acreage or subdivided lot.

I'd approve any zoning regulation that allowed only one family per ten square miles... or maybe a hundred... as long as I'm that family.

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So do they define ALL farming as comercial_ thats the key, ag use is generally the LEAST restricted.

When we lived in Colorado, it was illegal to have rain barrels to catch the rain, cause it was considered stealing. The state had all ready "sold" the water to Nevada and California. Still can't wrap my brain around that one.

The "cottage Law" does require inspections. It doesn't, however, make you set up a "commercial" kitchen. You also have to apply (and be granted) a Cottage License.

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