"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.
Well at least you're honest.
But clearly this is a case of your own personal phobia coming into play.
If an alligator moves next to you AFTER you have lived there, then obviously you would have reason to be concerned: Concerned with what measures your neighbor is going to take to contain the alligator and ensure your safety.
But in this particular case, this man had lived there for over 20 years, and BEFORE the daycare that was complaining. It's called Due Diligence. If the daycare had done their homework, they would have known there were alligators living next door, just like a person would know they moved next to an airport, and that airports mean NOISE.
Buyer beware. You can't move next to the ocean and then complain about the noise from the surf and require the town, the local government to dampen the surf because of the noise. It's your responsibility to know what you're buying into. So in this case, and in the case I used as an example (the airport noise), the people doing the complaining are in the wrong.
But in the example you give, where alligators move next door to you after you own your home, you have a right to be concerned. But not to the extent that it impacts that person's rights to own an alligator. You ask him to use double containment, you inspect it and make sure it meets your approval, and then you live like good neighbors. If you're still worried, then you install your own safeguards, or you move. But to bring down "the law" on someone just because you don't like what they're doing... c'mon... Like you said, you don't really believe that. So don't let an emotional reaction (your personal phobia) blind you. There's nothing wrong with a personal phobia -- if someone moved next to me with 10,000 cockroaches (we don't have them here), I would NOT be happy because they could escape and run rampant. That's a personal phobia. But it doesn't mean I have to bring down "the government" on them.
You know this.