Got to love developments in rural areas

[Tomtint]

I drive a road home generally after work a lot times (right around here you cross into a different county). The other day, on this road, signs all over the road stating "Save Conrad Road, STOP the development". Couldn't figure out what the deal was.

Then in yesterdays paper, found it...

Neighbors battle plan to build 61 houses on tree-lined Conrad Road in Lewisville

Developers eyeing a 58-acre tract along scenic Conrad Road being opposed by neighbors and nearby residents.

journalnow.com

Funny thing, what the paper doesn't tell you is all the McMansions with 5 acres built 3 or 4 years ago parked off the same road. I just find it funny people spend at least 700k on homes with 5 acres in a rural area and now are fighting more homes going up around them. I get it, but a part of me thinks "tough titties".

THIS is why we went in the hole and bought our land. I expect down the road that people may build across our rural road, and God knows how may houses could be built on that land, BUT...ain't no one building in front or in back of our house LOL

Coming from Lewisville, this smaller house went up at the beginning of Conrad road. I can't imagine why ANONE would buy a house with the height difference of ground no more than 20' in front of your home (it's like 5' wide flat in front of the house and then a hill...).

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The old saying is that the difference between a developer and a conservationist..Is that the conservationist built their house last year. ..IMO..If people who appose development on other peoples land..They should put their money where their mouth is and stroke a check for all that land they want un touched.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Who's 'they'?

A year ago November we shut of my father in-law's pacemaker/defibrillator.

How did you do that?

 

[MossRoad]

Yep it was in that same mess as the code enfocement. Don't know how they are going to enforce it.... unless it is neighbors calling you in because they are mad at you or something.

I'm guessing this is the house that started the ball in motion. It's up on Darden Rd. near Healthwin Hosp. This is AFTER it was cleaned up. Was way worse before this. A couple decades at least. We knew their next-door neighbors at one time.

Anyhow, they don't have the manpower to go looking, so, yes, they said it's only going to be complaint-based. Back when I worked at the Newspaper the city was going to do some code enforcement blitz. I turned in many dozen complaints myself... all on city owned property that didn't meet code. Surprisingly, they took care of most of them. I've done it a few more times since then. Lately, though, they just don't respond to letters to the paper. I think they figured out that not many people read it anymore, and I'm not going on facebook.

 

[MossRoad]

How did you do that?

He was near the end. We were waiting for the COVID test to come back so we could take him from his house to hospice. However, he went brain-dead overnight in his bedroom, but the pacemaker/defibrillator kept restarting his heart. So the decision was made to turn it off. We had a do not resuscitate order on him for about a year before that, so everything was already decided.

'They' put a big powerful magnet the size of a donut on his chest right over the device. They said it would take about 15-20 minutes to get it to shut off. Tough old dude's heart kept going for 2 more hours. He was 93 years old.

I miss him a lot. Nothing but good memories.

 

[ultrarunner]

Pacemakers and magnets or magnetic fields must be avoided...

 

[Oaktree]

The person selling the land can attach any restrictions they want to. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I prefer restrictions and if I ever sell any of my property it will have rigid restrictions or I’ll keep it. You’re free to buy in less desirable areas.

That's total BS. It's not your land anymore, what gives you the right to tell the new owners what they can and cannot do on it? What are you going to do if they disobey you?

 

[Bill Guenthner]

That's total BS. It's not your land anymore, what gives you the right to tell the new owners what they can and cannot do on it?

US legal code. This is pretty basic. Have you never seen a deed with covenants?

What are you going to do if they disobey you?

Sue them.

 

[MossRoad]

The person selling the land can attach any restrictions they want to. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I prefer restrictions and if I ever sell any of my property it will have rigid restrictions or I’ll keep it. You’re free to buy in less desirable areas.

Back in the 50's my father and a partner bought up about 20 acres and subdivided it into about 17 lots. No trees over X inches (can't remember the dimension now) could be cut without approval of the my father and his partner. That applied to new construction as well as anything else. That was to keep the neighborhood wooded. Worked out pretty well. To this day the neighborhood is still wooded.

About a year later, the city ran a drainage ditch through the partner's property, ruining it. Partner sued the city and made them buy the lot from him plus damages. In the early 70's the city came out and started cutting down the walnut trees on the property to sell for profit. My mom ran down there and stopped them. They didn't get my father's permission. It was still in the deed. They couldn't sell the lumber and they had to replant the trees they cut down. The logs were left there to rot. Terrible waste, but they had no legal right to cut them down in the first place.

Really have to read the fine print when purchasing property. There can be all kinds of stuff in there.

 

[kenmbz]

We have rights to use the shared driveway that legally my neighbor owns.
It's in the deed and nothing they can do about it.

We get along fine and help each other care for it and share costs.

Would be silly for either of us to build a new road to get around the "rules"

A few years back, a few towns over. The utility company sent out crews during the day to remove trees from people properties.

But they forgot to ask permission (or even tell anyone).
People came home to see all the trees 15-20 feet in from the road completely gone.

Ended up, there was no reason to take the trees out as they could replace the poles and just have trimmed the trees. The contractor got too literal (and probably a lot more $).
That one went ballistic with lawsuits etc. and finally ended with $ back to everyone. But the trees were still gone...

 

[tradosaurus]

US legal code. This is pretty basic. Have you never seen a deed with covenants?

Sue them.

My wife and I looked at a house in a somewhat rural area that was among about 10 houses. The land the houses were on had a covenant that kept you from owning cows and restrictions on additions to your property. Supposedly the previous owner of the land attached a covenant before selling it to a developer.

Covenants in Texas