Zoning, Use and Competence

[Zero]

Are there legal alternatives to this general use?

It's in Fells Point (Historic area w/ com/res mixed), Baltimore City. Zoned B-3 which allows a WIDE array of commercial uses, but it's on a very narrow side "alley" street, no parking, no sidewalk. Some neighbors have similar zoning but are also bought/sold as residences. There's not a scarcity of commercial propeties in this area.

Another twist, of course. I've just learned that they want to do it FHA.

 

[CANative]

FWIW, it too, is zoned ag and it take around 200 acres per AU.

200 acres per cow and no room for the bull? LOL... that's some pretty sad land. Sof if you wanted to run 10 beef cows, a bull, a horse for round up and 7 lambs, you need 2,600 acres. What is the average cow-acre-days out there?

 

[xmrdfghap]

200 acres per cow and no room for the bull? LOL... that's some pretty sad land. Sof if you wanted to run 10 beef cows, a bull, a horse for round up and 7 lambs, you need 2,600 acres. What is the average cow-acre-days out there?

A horse needs 50% more land than a cow. No idea about the cow/acre/days ratio, I don't work that area anymore and when I was out there I worked more up in the mountains and just did the fence riding and round ups, not the business end of it (I was 17 at the time as well). But for a good cow operation you need a lot of land. (364 sunny days a year) I recall that there was a ranch for sale a few years ago in substantially better land than that that I mentioned above. It was 90 sections owned with another 200 leased. I have no idea what it eventually sold for, but it was not an unusual spread.

Reminds me of the story about the tourist who asked what the annual rainfall was, and was told it was about 6" a year. The tourist said "That isn't much rain, is it?" And the rancher said "You should be here the day we get it."

 

[CANative]

LOL... you must have some pretty grumpy cows out there.

Here is part of the 560 acres I'm working on today. 3 AP"s, 2 lots. Probably be around $2,000,000+ Funny though. Pasture land leases for about $1.50 per acre so income would be what? $800 per year? LOL. Happy cows though. At least that's what the TV commercials say.

Edit... wrong picture was posted.