Florida Man Ordered by City to Keep BBQ Smell From Leaving His Property

originally posted by: M4ngo

originally posted by: wishes
Just to give another perspective, what if this guy had a hive of bees in his backyard and the bees kept flying into the neighbors yard? Does the neighbor then have the right to demand he keep his bees out of their yard? What if the neighbor is sensitive to gas smells, or is a vegan and can't stomach the smell of meat cooking? What happens to the neighbors right to quiet enjoyment of their home?

Of course he can't 'keep' the smell in his yard, but that's not the point - the point is an activity he is doing is causing his neighbor to react and the neighbor has a right to quiet enjoyment. That's less big brother and simply a rule to try and help everybody have quiet enjoyment of their own home/property and not have to endure invasions of any kind from neighbors.

Burger King, etc. smells, if they are wafting into a neighbors private home and upsetting the person they could probably pull the same ordinance, but usually these are in commercial areas anyway and not neighborhoods.

I used to be a property manager in Canada and this ordinance is everywhere that I know of - the ordinance rules are there so that a property owner can have recourse if a neighbor is somehow ruining their enjoyment, be it sound, -smell, pests, pets doesn't matter - it's not some big conspiracy, it's just a rule to help ensure one person isn't deluged by another on private properties.

It's possible the neighbor is being totally unreasonable, but they still have the right to not have to endure smells from a neighbor they don't want to endure. Without that law, a neighbor could burn animal bodies without recourse, keep bees, have dogs roaming everywhere, play loud music 24/7, throw old oil over the fence, etc. etc. ...

Just to give you some perspective: Will the Federal Government remove the train tracks that are right next to my house that keep me up in the middle of the night while I am trying to sleep? No. Will they remove them because I find it a nuisance? No. What if I am already deaf in one ear, and this train's horn causes me to go deaf in the other? Nothing will happen. The train's noise pollution is a hell of a lot worse than this man trying to cook some food. You're ridiculous.

Doesn't stop people from taking the train company to court. And they have there are locations they had to erect sound barriers to decrease noise in residential areas. May be as simple as building a dirt mound or may babe to install cement walls. Yes you have the right to sue them and who knows depend I g on noise level may win. Our airport was sued by residence in the path of runways people complained of the noise. The airport lost and had to pay for sound proof windows in their homes and insulation in their attics.

a reply to: M4ngo

Well..........
...when you buy a home is it (nearby trains keeping you up all night) not already a variable of consideration? Does such a proximitable feature affect listing values? Sure if the place is already a quazi-commercial 'residence' billowing smoker vapors that blast your prospective lot upon your initial Open House extravaganza, well if its expected/obvious at purchase then such nosehairy mindcontrol schemes should be expected, while if it aint it aint.

Of course the elephant on the sidewalk are: Does it smell bad? Do they get a discount? Answer both correctly, everyone wins and maybe most might enjoy the weekendly block party. Else I suppose you might ought to switch from smoking sow ribs to smoking whole cocks instead (although dont get too literal and wake the neighbors up daily with such olfactorifistic propagandizational vaporizations).