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September 17, 2008

Sam Davidson says he'll challenge an Edwardsville ordinance that would restrict the number of horses he can keep. Davidson keeps 38 horses on his nine acres of land, but the new ordinance would restrict the number to no more than 18 animals.

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  1. sldavidsonfarms (anonymous) says…

    A little background may be in order here. So-called "right to farm" laws By the 1990s, virtually all states had approved this kind of exemption. The original right-to-farm laws were intended to protect pre-existing agricultural operations that conformed to "generally accepted agricultural practices". These were traditional family farms, where a small amount of waste was generated and all or most of it was recycled onto the land and where the farm did much of its business, both buying and selling, locally. The initial laws focused on nuisance suits by neighbors.
    In the 1980s and 1990s,
    protected by right-to-farm laws : Some, like Oklahoma, Wyoming, Tennessee and Kansas responded by modifying the laws so that they specifically covered large feedlots. Nine states granted immunity from nuisance suits only within agricultural districts, defined by county administrators. Within these districts, farmers could be exempt from nuisance suits (and often When courts held there was no immunity from nuisance suits on land not zoned for farming, the legislature amended the act to cover expansion of operations or a complete change in the farming operations on any land, regardless of zoning, as long as farmers are in compliance with state regulations.The second revision also expressly prohibits local governments from enacting regulations more stringent than those established at the state level . Im thinking that if my legal group can find this Law , the city should have been able to . Maybe its time to look at a Recall of CITY Officials . Sam Davidson