This is rich, snooty neighbors wouldn't let this guy build homes on his land, unless he did it their way, so he says screw it, and builds a hog farm :) Zoned agricultural, so their screwed....

Smelly Revenge

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

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Shoot its only 30-40 pigs. We've got farms with thousands in eastern nc. no i am not bragging, far from it.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

ROTFL

I love it!

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

It's all about location :)

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

31 houses on 16 acres is too dense. It's a sure recipe for off-site flooding, although the neighbors may not have realized that as a legitimate beef.

Never understood folks who didn't understand the lesson that if you are concerned about how the neighborhood looks, you either move into a fully developed area or you buy up that piece of undeveloped land.

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

Brooks, why would 1/2 acre lots be too dense? City lots are considerably smaller.

If you were trying to put 8-12 houses per acre like most city development, I could see that being too dense.

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

Yup, would love 1/2 acre, twice as big as we have now. We're lucky--next to corner house, so there are two backyards adjoining on that side, another backyard behind ours, and a vacant but landscaped lot on the other side. We have pretty good privacy until someone decides to sell that vaccant lot. But I'm growing a tall hedge on that side, some shrubs already high and thick enough for privacy. I hope to add more in fall.

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

31 houses in 16 acres is NOT, repeat NOT 1/2 acre lots. You have to provide for infrastructure, like roads. Eventually you don't have room for the stormwater management system, and so much of the area is impervious surface that the neighborhood is truly trashed, or at least flooded. It simply doesn't work.

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001

And then there is the likelihood that the 16-acres included wetlands. Either the area is undevelopable by that amount (I would hope, they serve incredibly important functions), or you have further exascerbated the stormwater situation.

Actually, 31 houses would be fine, provided they were clustered in a fairly small portion of the 16 acres. Then it can work out. But NOT equally sized lots throughout the area.

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2001