Walt,
Man, you're just not getting "it"... the city council has no jurisdiction, the property is outside any city limits!! It's county business; out here the county is run by the county, the people living out in it. We elect the Board of Supervisors from members living in the county (our neighbors), and supervise is pretty much all they do (well, and count the money). If a new county ordinance (such as a noise ordinance) is gonna' be enacted... we, the people living out of city limits in the county, vote it up or down. This county, my county, basically has only two ordinances, and both have to do with septic systems... one is the regulations pertaining to the installation of new systems, and the other gives the County Board of Health jurisdiction over any complaints of a septic system causing a "public nuisance". Other than that... we don't want, or need, no friggin' rules!!
No zogger, I don't see the hypocrisy at all. The man is free to "use" is property any way he sees fit... he can even sell it. What he can't do is drill multiple wells into our watertable, install multiple septic systems draining into our county, and build multiple drives across our roadway ditch without our OK. If wants to build a house for himself, no problem... put up fences, OK... build a barn, fine... set up a shooting range, no issue... buy some horses, all for it. But ya' can't develop it into suburb, add roads and drives, and sell off tiny pieces without our OK... that ain't him "using" his property. Heck, he ain't even a resident of the county!!!
Nope, disagree, and you are using the typical hypocritical statist POV that your rights trump someone elses because you say so, constitution be damned, might and numbers make right.
Been here long enough I know you will immediately deny it, doesn't change the facts though, your county "rules". Uh huh Your country decides that anyone under 6 foot and doesn't have blue eyes isn't allowed there..just because some yahoos pass some law doesn't make it ethical or constitutional, it happens all the time though, and IMO is what is primarily wrong with this nation, 99% of the people are statists and also in favor of mob rule, might makes right.
When I was a kid, was a city near where we lived had a "law" posted at the city line. Welcome to _____, near there typical moose lodge, kiwanis, elks, etc...and a sign that said NO N------ ALLOWED.
All legal, they voted on it, passed their local law.......
They didn't want "outsiders" coming in....for whatever reasons they came up with at the time, they put "restrictions" and "zoned" that city against someone else's freedom.....
Water rights. you have no problem with a single family going in and farming..swell..I work on a farm, i am a full time farmer, and you ain't, but you live rural..maybe we all should pass laws that to live rural you have to be a full time farmer, otherwise, back to the city! No second homes or camps, infringing on the locals "rights"....zone it pure, cleanse the area of outsiders and their odd ways....
The primary farming done here where I live and work is poultry. Ever even wonder how much water a single broiler house uses, let along a reasonable normal single family run broiler farm, which could easily be 8 houses? Each broiler house would use MORE water than your theoretical 10 acre subdivision....but it's farming so that is OK? 10 acres, one family, and full time farming...You are in the corn belt, how much water gets sucked out of those 'fossil" aquifers to make corn gas for monsanto and those farmers? And where are the borders underground, when it flows like streams? Can one guy suck ALL the water out because he owns thousands of acres there?
Yes, I see the point there for restrictions because the use extends BEYOND the property border. There is no way to limit, outside of gallons/yr/acre, to be determined scientifically somehow, how much a single owner could pull and use without it negatively impacting the neighbors on the other side of some property line.
I am consistent here, I don't pick and choose which to follow or not of our old tenets that where well thought out by some pretty smart guys.
If that guys residential area used the same or less water than a farm there doing "allowed" irrigation, or a typical hog farm that used water plus had to use a manure lagoon, not seeing as how it is anyone else's business, other than statism and "might makes right"..
Now the original OP post, he wasn't doing a single thing to infringe on the new neighbors rights at all, she was out of line. Normal human use of rural acreage can and often does involved equipment noises, some dust sometimes, animal noises perhaps, etc. And given the nature of physics, pretty hard to keep all that inisde a border.
In her city, she had the same thing, road noises all the time, sirens at intermittent times, even late at night, etc. she was out of line. but..her right to move in and live, just not to go nuts on the neighbor, she crossed the line first.
If later on she wants to have a big weekend party, whoopedy zing, people are allowed to have friends over, and if there is "noise" say live music, oh well, humans are social creaters and various GTG type events are well known and understood in our species going way back. Shouldn't be any "zoning" for or against normal human behavior and the freedom to be YOU.
there should never, no exceptions, be any "permit" needed for born with rights.