Wow, I thought the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Sacketts on Priest Lake, Idaho was going to put an end to a lot of those abuses. That sounds truly awful.
At some point in the Whatcom County rural control fight, it declared that the activists actually had no authority to level fines on small farmers and rural property owners and that part of it ended. They had actually frightened a lot of the small farmers into dining farm plans that they had drawn up, which gave these activists permission to enter their property to do inspections at will. In the end they had to get Pacific legal to release the county from the hold of the activists. One issue they held onto was wetlands and set backs from any body of water. The set backs in many cases, made the land unbuildable. On top of that they came up with the idea of cluster building in rural areas, which put the houses ten feet from the property line, putting houses twenty feet apart on five acre lots.