Why on earth do you agree with the town in this case???? The man has lived there for years w/o incident; he was there before the daycare; there's no reason to assume there will be a problem in the future based on his YEARS of past history with no problem; etc.
On what, exactly, do you base your agreement with the town?
Do you also agree that people who move next to an airport should be complaining about the noise? Should the airport be shut down? I mean, after all, even though there's never been an airplane crashing into the neighborhood, it COULD HAPPEN. So perhaps we shouldn't allow the airport in the neighborhood. Even though the airport was there first. Right?
"Shouldn't be "allowed"?? By whom? The 'monitor everything you do' committee?"
No, the town, the local government.
"Why on earth do you agree with the town in this case???? "
Because I dont like alligators. Suppose a new person moves into the house next to me. Suppose they own an alligator and it lives in their backyard. I would try to get the government to decide the alligator should not live there, inches from my barbeque. Is this unreasonable?
"Do you also agree that people who move next to an airport should be complaining about the noise?"
Depends on the details of that case I guess.
"Should the airport be shut down?"
No.
"Live and let live people. Don't 'disallow' everything you don't agree with."
Almost always agree with that, but not in this case.
This happens with Shooting Ranges as well. Once the houses go up next to the Range, the new homeowners complain about the noise.