The town made "farming" and ownership of "farm animals" illegal within the "hamlet." The "hamlet is basicially a certain area where there's a mix of houses and stores. When they passed the law there were still four working farms. Now there's only one left. These laws were passed to avoid animal smells, "road-apples" on the road, buthering on the front lawn, seedy looking farmers who you don't find in the LL Bean catalog, etc. Funny thing is - here in Otsego County NY . . . chickens are allowed to free-range anyhwere. So if you live in town, you cannot legally own them, but the chickens are allowed to be there. 200 years ago, cattle had free-range rights too - but that ended.
I helped someone defend himself a few years back when she got charged with illegal "farming." She had a pet pony and goat. We won and the town basically lost. The reason? Town law does not specifically define "farming." So - I made it clear to the town attorney et. al. that they can't apply these laws to just some people and not others. Agriculture law in New York covers dogs and cats. So, it's easy to construe that if this anti-farming law was enforced - nobody could own cats and dogs. And how about mowing your lawn? How is that different from mowing hay? I pointed out over 50 such things and the charges got dropped. But, I'm sure it will happen again.
All our damage here was from flooding. When Irene hit, we were fine. But then got the ground soaked pretty good. Shortly after we got hit with a second rain storm and that one washed out bridges,roads, farm fields, houses, etc. FEMA is still here wasting money. In fact, we just watched a convoy of FEMA house trailers arriving. How many months later? Sorry for my lack of compassion but if someone lives next to a creek the we all know is going to flood sometime - and they chose to live there with no insurance - tough luck as far as I'm concerned. If my house blows off this mountain top - I know I will get nothing from the government -except maybe a fine for littering.
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