I am also considering getting a restraining order prohibiting him from spraying any substance on or through my chain link fence, no tossing anything over the fence, no wiring my mailbox shut, no filing of bogus complaints with animal control and no whining at city council about it. I have broken no law and he has.
As for people who would not like to be my neighbor, it is a town called Norco, "dedicated to the animal keeping lifestyle" and people who live there, know it. He has lived there forever and is a bully and a jerk and whom many MANY people dislike. Across the street I have a couple famous for frivolous lawsuits, bullying behavior, going toe to toe, even legal action when they are in the wrong. They lost their last home in bankruptcy due to legal fees they incurred because the man pushed down an old lady in front of her house and broke her arm. They are also a piece of work. Across the street is a speed freak irrational "animal lover" along the lines of PETA. Next door on the other side is the nicest people anyone could ever want. Behind me is a renter with dogs that bark, a donkey that brays and noisy grandkids that is very quiet and stays to herself and can't stand the man who called animal control on me either. Past her is another hispanic family with a large pack of puppy mill chihuahuas that fight and sound like they are killing eachother, plus some queensland heelers. Zoning in norco is four dogs no exceptions. He also has MULTIPLE roosters, and what looks for all the world like a cock fighting pit built in plain sight in their back yard, but no one complains about him.
For five years the house was in a trust with stipulations that made it so I could lose the house under certain circumstances and I went way above and beyond and walked on eggshells for five years, so the neighbors got to thinking they could just walk all over me and bully me. Well, five years was up more than a year ago, the house is mine, and I worked HARD, harder than you will ever know to satisfy the terms of the trust, so I deserve to have chickens more than any person I know. I will have my chickens. They are where they are because of an existing large, doubly triply secure cage complex, that previously held a baboon and a wolf, and before that was used for caging lions and tigers. It is dug into the ground and would take profound money and effort to move, which I am not willing to do. Tough tooties, neighbor. Move if you don't like it. I'm done with you. Period.