Well, I hope he follows through and there's no change in zoning and maybe the developer will move on. What's the point of zoning if developers can just operate with the assumption they'll change the use at their whim?
The folks should embrace and celebrate the pig farm - just to piss him off more.
Does he need a lot of permits for the pond that holds the hog waste..?
Nagel doesn't want to be in the city because he would have to pay an estimated $300,000 to extend a sewer line a half-mile and a water line a mile under railroad tracks to the property.
Zoning laws are nothing more than fascism by a different name. One of the primary tenets of fascism is government control of private property. You may own a title to the property and you pay taxes on it, but the government controls how you may use it.
Under English common law, the owner of the property is invested with a number of rights in that property - the right to develop, to use, to sub-divide and bar others entry. We have come a long way from owning rights in our property and have adopted the German fascist model.
Zoning laws came into being in the 1920s, just as Marxism was being embraced by countries around the world. Before government zoning, land use was controlled by citizens in the community and backed by courts who understood English common law and the concepts of trespass and expected use. This prevented pig farms being built in areas where housing was common and expected.
Zoning laws are nothing more than opportunities for little local fascists to act like dictators and enrich themselves and their friends.
Good for him.
Hope he follows through.
It is going to cost him WAY more than the $300,000 he didn't want to spend if he is planning to put in a pig farm. With all the environmental regs he is going to have to comply with ( builing a waste treatement plant for all the runoff for starters ) he won't have any money left to feed the pigs !!!
I can't imagine anyone even noticing a pig farm in DOWNTOWN Rathdrum. Nevermind on the outskirts of town.
To sum up Rathdrum as a community... It looks as if the local honky tonk just up and grew into a town. Even the town church has a neon cross on the steeple.
I imagine that there was lots of talk about "controlling sprawl" which of course is nonsense because Rathdrum is the northern end of Post Falls, the western end of Hayden, and the eastern end of Spokane.
My father-in-law's friend bought some land "in town" back in the 60's; the land was zoned agricultural, but he planned on opening a fence business on it. One of the town councilmen blocked him from doing this, so he bought a bunch of farm animals for the new property. After the stench of manure began permeating the neighborhood, the neighbors complained, and the same council person told Johnny he couldn't have farm animals in town. Johnny told him that his property was agricultural, and he planned on changing his profession to farming, and would bring in even more animals,and there was nothing he could do about it. Needless to say, he was allowed to open his fence business.