Re: Tractor Storage

Posted by jdemaris on March 03, 2004 at 15:14:37 from (209.23.31.99):

In Reply to: Tractor Storage posted by stan on March 03, 2004 at 14:51:12:

I'm in central New York State and haven't been to California since 1969. It would behoove you to get a copy of your town or city's land use regulations or zoning laws and read them carefully. We've got similar nonsense going on here. 25 years ago this was a farming community. Now there are 2-3 farms left and they'll be gone soon. We're still rural in apearance, but the city people are coming in droves, buying up the property, and building new houses. So, land regs. are being rewritten to keep them happy. Our town is split into districts, each one having certain restrictions. Hamlet, Light District, Water District, Historic District, Agricultural, etc. A friend of mine has a dairy farm that's in the Hamlet and the land-use regs. say farming is not allowed. But, it goes on to say that farms are grandfathered in unless such activity ceases for one year. So . . . if he gets sick and stops milking cows for a year, he's screwed. Town is also writing "junk laws" to apply to all the districts. This with the intention to get rid of "unsighlty tractors and cars" and such. The first such law they wrote read "no unregistered motor vehicles allowed" but that went over like a fart in church. Seems it could be applied to lawn mowers and farm tractors - and you don't see too many of them that are registered. We'll see what happens. I recently heard complaints about cow-crap on the road - guess soon the Holsteins will being wearing big diapers. Again, read your regs. carefully. To be legally enforceble, words should be defined within the document, and if not, they take on their everyday meaning. So, if they say no "junk", they have to define junk. If they they no "tractors" they have to define tractor. It's an important point. One of our laws for the hamlet (i.e. village) states that "agriculture" is not allowed, and they don't define agriculture. When they tried to enforce it, they discovered that cats and dogs are controlled by NYS Agriculure and Markets - so cats and dogs are not allowed. Also, what's the difference from mowing your "lawn" or cutting "hay."
I want to escape and maybe live one more place in my lifetime that doesn't get developed - but I don't know where to go.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: Tractor Storage Farmered 06:45:48 03/04/04 (2)
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