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[John Husvar]

On Sunday, August 21, 2005, at 08:34  PM, Walter Mullett wrote:
> housing areas. Not marginal land but really good farm land.

And how!

>
> Part of the land use problem can be attributed to our governmental
> regulations.  In Ohio, most of the rural areas restrict housing to a 
> minimum
> frontage and acreage.  The result is narrow strips of land with the 
> house in
> the front and the back growing into scrub.  The fools that enacted 
> these
> restrictions 50 years ago thought they would stem the loss of farm 
> land.
> Instead, they hastened it.

Yep. While looking for new housing when our son wanted to buy our 
present place, (Didn't work out.) I got sick to death of "toothpick 
lots." Everywhere we looked were 120' to 160' X 500, 700, even 1200' 
lots; no room to afford privacy and a lot of useless acreage. 
Disgusting!

>
> What we really needed was a recognition of the demand for rural 
> housing and
> to encourage (legislate) rural developments that co-existed with farm 
> land,
> not put it out of business.
>
> Most of the city folks that come to the country really don't want 
> rural life
> anyway.  They just want to get away from urban life.  The don't like 
> fields
> spread with liquid manure, farm implements slowing them on the road or 
> a pig
> farm next door.  They each have a light polluting "safety" light hung 
> on
> their service pole and some even have multiples.  They also don't want 
> the
> noise, crime and visual pollution of the city.  The problem is they 
> are the
> problem.....

Seems to be part of human nature: Folks move from where they were 
because they don't like it, then they try to turn where they are into 
where they were.
Sorry, the pig farm was there first. (and they knew it when they bought 
the lot!:)

>
> I personally like the dark and feel much safer.  I know where 
> everything is.
> Why show the thief?  I, like most farmers, also have a shotgun and I'm 
> not
> afraid to use it.  Something that I know is a concern to the would be 
> rural
> thief and therefore he is more likely to choose from the well lighted
> opportunities.

<chuckle> Ayup!

Is any piece of property  worth someone's life or health? Dunno for 
sure: That's a question only each individual burglar can answer 
definitively.