Regina Larsen
Crowing
I wouldn’t let anyone, who didn’t already know, go thru this as well.
So I just found out who else is on the zoning appeals board. One of them, the chair, actively dislikes my neighbor and the other signed a petition to keep them around. She actually wrote the petition. So I’m hoping they’ll see through my neighbors BS. There’s going to be an appeals meeting sometime in the next two weeks. My neighbor can contest the variance there. We plan on telling the board we don’t want the variance forever. Just until we move. I figured out, by talking to a lawyer again, that my anxiety is considered a disability. In NYS to get a use variance there needs to be a hardship that I didn’t bring on myself. My anxiety is that hardship. I didn’t ask to have anxiety. Or to have the chickens help with that. But they do help. Immensely. I’m hoping this plan works. If it doesn’t I’m back to hiding them in my house. My husband wants to ask for a “stay” until we move. But I don’t think the ordinance officer will go for that.
What a disaster for you i saw early on yr mom referred to him as a wet-brain. In medical lingo that refers to a chronic heavy alcoholic whose upper brain has lost volume - it manifests as dementia-type behaviors. Many folks in this situation are NOT easy or pleasant (then you have the smaller number who are like Rev Jim from Taxi who can drive you to distraction but who are not mean.) From that standpoint yr neighbor will stay the same or change for the worse in terms of mentation. Talking with him is pretty pointless bc the majority of it likely wont be remembered. If his wife is nasty too keep in mind shes been an enabler for decades. They sound like quite the toxic soup!
I hope you find some peace!