Overview

• Reasonable people may disagree about how land use impacts others. Merely because one property owner dislikes the way another owner uses their property does not constitute a Legal Principle violation. However, when a non-minor trespass occurs, the Legal Principle has been violated.
• It’s reasonable to restrict certain types of activity in advance in specific locations to avoid a Legal Principle violation. While property owners are always free to voluntarily form homeowner’s associations that regulate aspects of property use, legal rules that affect property ownership may not be arbitrarily discriminatory and must be based on preventing substantial interference with others.
• The local community must determine fair restrictions that harmonize with the Legal Principle within a reasonable framework of peaceful coexistence.