Friday, January 07, 2005

Another Gun Club Gets Zoned Out

This type of thing always fascinates me. Gun club in the area for 60 years, and then people move into the area around it and try and force it out. In this case apparently they will succeed.

Of course they pull out these tired arguments.

Beyond the noise, there are concerns that lead from the bullets might be tainting the drinking water – and then there’s the overall worry of bullets going astray. Gun club officials say there’s never been a single incident of any kind in the six decades it’s been in the area.

Well, they're on leased property, so they probably have no say in the whole thing either.

I wonder if there is a way that when the club actually owns the property that they can force a rider, or something similar, onto the deeds of the neighboring property specifying that the gun club is in place and has certain related factors that they will have to live with when moving into the area. Just some way to force the information on the buyer and ensure that when they build near such an establishment that they are fully aware of its existence and the related "issues."

I've heard of gravel mining facilities doing this when people move onto adjacent lots and then start crying about the noise of the trucks and the dust from the operation.

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