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To: NittanyLion
If someone builds a Picnic Grove next to your property, your home or vacation spot, you have the right to expect his use will not be too obnoxious to you. What is obnoxious is obnoxious within reasonable standards, but say if he has a multi-kilo-watt sound system blaring long into the night -- that is obnoxious, and can reasonably be restricted, and such restrictions are the duty of local government, so that adjoining owners are not a constant war with one another.

The word "PROPER" is key to understanding property rights. As owner of property you do not have the right to poison the creek that runs through it, or poison your own well because that may affect the the ground water of your neighbors.

142 posted on 05/14/2002 6:42:08 AM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw
What is obnoxious is obnoxious within reasonable standards

And on that basis, the woman may have a case for at least forcing him to paint the fence a neutral color.

156 posted on 05/14/2002 6:49:06 AM PDT by freedomcrusader
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To: bvw
What is obnoxious is obnoxious within reasonable standards, but say if he has a multi-kilo-watt sound system blaring long into the night -- that is obnoxious, and can reasonably be restricted, and such restrictions are the duty of local government, so that adjoining owners are not a constant war with one another.

In your example, the sound would not be confined to their own property. This fence is clearly confined to this guy's property, which is why it should be allowed. If the standard was "I don't like the view", I could force m neighbors to tear down their pink shutters.

163 posted on 05/14/2002 6:52:35 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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