Court Opinion

ID: 9594421
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:29:55.270256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:29:35.025936
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Hill, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I would affirm the trial court and therefore must dissent. It should be that a county can prohibit all hogs in an area zoned single-family residential and thus should be authorized to limit the number to 3. Moreover, the testimony at the hearing on the temporary injunction showed that at least recently, the Avants were averaging about 40 hogs per year. This number violates the 1 hog per acre limit not held unconstitutional by the majority and thus the injunction was authorized.
The trial court held that the ordinance limiting “3 hogs or pigs for an eight or twenty-one acre tract [in a single-family residential zone] is a reasonable ordinance,” (matter in brackets added) and “that Douglas County has a right and a duty to regulate land uses especially in view of the rapidly changing urban area contained within the county.” I would uphold the validity of this ordinance as applied to single-family residential zones and would hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in enjoining its violation.