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A town of <1000 people simply cannot craft city ordinances with all the edge cases that a city of >8500000 can. That is not a reasonable request, and it is not
by bryananderson 9y ago
A town of <1000 people simply cannot craft city ordinances with all the edge cases that a city of >8500000 can. That is not a reasonable request, and it is not a license for the city of >8500000 to take advantage of the town of <1000.
- nimish 9y agoThat's true, but it's the cost this town paid for not wanting regulations at all. They have literally no zoning regs and are now crying that someone took advantage of them. They shouldn't have been so naive.
- humanrebar 9y agoIn the context of a small town, you don't craft airtight zoning regulations because if Harold is being a bad neighbor, you go work it out with Harold. If he's still being a jerk, you ask his friends to help you talk to him. I don't think it's fair to blame the town for expecting people to be considerate and decent. Blaming them is like blaming consumers for not reading a EULA.
- nimish 9y agoNah, it's not like there aren't a million towns out there with adequate regulations they could have just copied. Or they could have made that "contact Harold if he's being an jerk" have legal teeth: community review boards and the like. Or zoning, like most towns have. You don't need perfectly airtight zoning regulations if draft them right: just ask SF residents where the rights of existing residents are almost too strong. This is a southern town so I strongly suspect the anti-regulation rhetoric won out and now they paid the price.