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In 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 s
by humanrebar 9y ago
In 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.