ROFL... When my hubby read this article to me yesterday, I couldn't stop laughing ----
Where do I start ?? Are people today so dumb that they need a "scratch & sniff cowpie" to know that rural areas have their own particular aroma ???
Leave it to the gubment to find a solution for these nansy-pansy whiners...
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!
The county I live in has a "Right To Farm" ordinance. It has been in place for many years, but recently-6-7 yrs ago, it became mandatory for real estate agents and brokers to give notice of same to prospective buyers.
It clearly states that there are a number of diverse farming operations in the county and basically, they were here first and have the right to be here. If you want to build or buy near one, you will only be making noise that not many will respond to if you start to bitch after coming into the area.
I have horses and dogs. I have had a couple of city slickers comment on the noise, etc. of my operation and others and I tell them outright that I could be raising pigs or turkeys. If they think those 2 commodities are less noisy or less smelly, they need to rethink their information.
The look on their faces when I mention pigs is utterly priceless.
Horses don't like pigs, so I wouldn't do it, but I can still verbalize it.....
We also have a "Right to Farm Ordinance."
http://ordlink.com/codes/siskiyou/index.htm In effect, it limits what practices can be considered nuisances:
Sec. 10-11.03. Nuisance.
No agricultural activity, operation or facility or appurtenances thereof, conducted or maintained for commercial purposes, and in a manner consistent with proper and accepted customs and standards and with all chapters of this code, as established and followed by similar agricultural operations, shall be or become a nuisance, public or private, pursuant to this code after the same has been in operation for more than three (3) years, if it was not a nuisance when it began. (§ I, Ord. 90-28, eff. October 25, 1990)
Countywide, minimum zoning for an ag parcel is 40 acres. Developments with septic tanks must have a 5 acre minimum. In addition, my particular area has a longstanding restrictive zoning plan. It limits development to fringe areas off the valley floor and protects prime ag lands. (This has caused some fire problems with development in wildland/urban interface.)
It will all fall apart when the coho is State listed. The DFG is trying to force minimum instream flows by restricting and managing irrigation from surface water. The Yuroks want to ekliminate any further development of groundwater. (County will NOT go there.) If the farmers and ranchers can't get adequate water, they can challenge their zoning and the whole area falls to retirement subdivisions.
We had one woman more next to a dairy. She didn't like the smell and tried complaining to all the local agencies. She had no cause, so she finaly when to the water quality control board and complained about water pollution. They came out and ispected. The system was found to be state of the art. It had actually been designed by the Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Water Quality Control Board.