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08-14-2008, 01:08 PM
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News, Nebraska town officials want horse out pronto.
HICKMAN, Neb. - Talk about your one-horse town. This burg of 1,084 residents is just that.
But some folks don't want that distinction. They want an aging horse named Peter Rabbit, who lives in a pasture in town, gone for good.
Nebraska town officials want horse out pronto - Yahoo! News (broken link)
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08-14-2008, 01:36 PM
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D'OH!!!
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Oh yes, this has caused quite the ruckus on the journal star boards. Seems to me there is more behind the story. If not then I can't imagine a city wasting so much time on the issue.
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08-14-2008, 04:06 PM
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I, too, think there is more to the story than we are getting from the media.
Seems like if they were annexed, the horse would have been "grandfathered" in, like in most annexation scenarios. There is probably something we're missing, or else maybe the village board really DOESN'T have anything better to do...  |
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08-15-2008, 11:58 AM
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I can't figure out why the guy would ask to go from ag. zoned to commercial and then is surprised that he can't keep livestock anymore...
~Erin
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08-15-2008, 04:01 PM
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Wesołych Świąt! God jul! Frohe Weihnachten!
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I'm guessing they want to put a strip mall or a few houses there.
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08-27-2008, 07:11 AM
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News update,
HICKMAN, Neb. - This one-horse town is looking like becoming a no-horse town.
The owner of a 32-year-old horse named Peter Rabbit wasn't able Tuesday to buck a local ban on livestock within city limits.
Nebraska city council votes to evict aging horse - Yahoo! News (broken link)
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08-28-2008, 06:03 PM
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The issue of a horse being in town would not fly in a town of that size in my area, near Sioux Falls, SD. Most towns of that size up in South Dakota would not permit horses in town neither. An exception would be if the owner is grandfathered.
Theoretically, if the town grows around the pasture, the owner should be grandfathered or given sufficient time to find another suitable location for his/her horses. The owner should be grandfathered if annexed into the city.
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08-29-2008, 10:57 PM
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But he asked to be re-zoned as commercial!
In which case, it was his own fault...
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08-29-2008, 11:28 PM
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If the property is zoned as commercial, then it makes sense for the city to not want the horse on the property (knowing that detail). The land should have been left as agricultural, but the decision to rezone was the property was not a bright move by the property owner.
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