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What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
by jollyllama 4y ago
What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
- AlgorithmicTime 4y agoYou mean other than practical, financial, and agricultural obstacles?
- giantg2 4y agoThey have high rises for pigs in China. So I guess in some areas they are practical.
- hackerlight 4y agoLaws pertaining to pollution or noise? Zoning laws are redundant at best.
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- dmitryminkovsky 4y agoBattery chicken farms are known to cause cancer in the State of California?
- gadflyinyoureye 4y agoProbably. Everything does. https://www.newsweek.com/heres-why-everything-gives-you-cancer-california-798750 https://www.newsweek.com/heres-why-everything-gives-you-canc...
- themitigating 4y agoWhat size batteries do chicken use? D?
- bluGill 4y agoWhy do you care if they do? Now you should have the right to demand that the chicken farm controls the smell, and otherwise isn't polluting, but stopping chicken farms completely is the wrong solution. The above includes assurance that fire and accidents will not spread. Of course land in the bay is valuable enough that nobody will do what you suggest. However that is economics, it shouldn't be law.
- jollyllama 4y agoI can imagine there's at least a couple of landlords who would place a premium on shortening their supply chains in such a way. Where I live, a lot of zoning laws are really ordinances, and the enforcement of different aspects of sanitation is split between the zoning ordinance and other ordinances. I wonder how the new anti-zoning law law handles that.
- runnerup 4y agoSometimes there are things are obviously bad and harmful and it can be known ahead of time that it will harm people. These things should be stopped before they happen in a properly functioning society. If someone invents a way to do it safely, they should have the burden of safely proving that first. If someone wants to stockpile 100 tons of explosive material in my neighborhood, I don't want my estate to use the courts to find remedy after my section of the neighborhood gets leveled/cratered. I want the obviously harmful activity to be stopped before the hazard is created.
- fragmede 4y agoThankfully it's not quite that level of anarchy, it's just that new housing can be built without local governments saying "no". It isn't the case that heavy industry can now be placed next to an elementary school.
- noselasd 4y agoI’ll assume there’s law controlling animal welfare, pollution, building codes for fire, water etc. hazards, but without zoning laws are there grounds to control noise, smell, traffic etc. ?
- mike_d 4y agoBecause the Builder's Remedy applies only to permitting for residential projects and homeless shelters.
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- tshaddox 4y agoOther laws. Same thing that stops someone from burning down your house or robbing you. They haven't suspended all laws.
- johngladtj 4y agoWhat's wrong with that? Also, given prevailing rents that would likely lose them money over renting it out, though you can certainly regulate your way into that being the best option if you "protect" renters enough.