Sometimes the FLDS don't make the best of neighbors as they don't use rural land as intended. I have to wonder how a bunch of rural ranch owners feel about manned guard towers going up in South Dakota and Texas or about a huge religious temple rising in the middle of the land. I would think these things devalue surrounding land.

Many times, rural communities don't like to have rules. Everyone does as they please, but they don't usually do weird things that affect their neighbor's property value. The last true rural skirmish I remember was from a landowner who refused to contain his buffalo on his land and let them break down his neighbor's fences and roam on his neighbor's property. The neighbor invited a few friends to hunt on his property and the buffalo were shot. The neighbor was arrested. So, there isn't always a good solution to rural skirmishes either.

In Colorado, our polygamy laws are extremely weak because polygamy hasn't been a problem here. Hopefully, our laws are strong against building objects that don't fit in with the rural landscape.

There is a lot of religious bigotry and persecution against the FLDS people.

In Texas the FLDS YFZ property there is a show place, valued by the county at over $20 million, and paying nearly 25% of the county budget in real estate taxes.

Hard to make a case that the FLDS devalued anything in Texas. Only ones that try to make that case are the bigots.

Looks like Colorado has learned from Texas. Send in the building inspectors.......make a few bucks from fines and fees and snoop around a bit. Guess there were no pregnant 27 year old teenagers in "plain sight".
They didn't have to "save the children" they just had to check the septic system. They always need to protect the people from their own waste water. You know that first the polygamists contiminate the soil then they contaminate the soul.
It seems that Texas officials first gained access to the YFZ property to enforce waste water issues related to a cheese plant. The game wardens were sent to stop night time hunting followed by overflights to search for a generator.

To bad we cant get an FLDS compound instead of that "CHRISTIAN" drug rehab house here on our 10 house CulDesac in Costa Mesa CA......Talk about good neighbors!

Gal50 said: Sometimes the FLDS don't make the best of neighbors as they don't use rural land as intended. I have to wonder how a bunch of rural ranch owners feel about manned guard towers going up in South Dakota and Texas or about a huge religious temple rising in the middle of the land. I would think these things devalue surrounding land.

Can we discuss what ranchers do to public lands? Would that make them the "best of neighbors"?

Any thinly veiled excuse is enough for people pre-desposed to hatred anyway.

Gal50 | 9:08 a.m. July 13, 2008
"Churches are a blight on the landscape, and should not be allowed in rural areas."

"Real estate agents should not be allowed to sell to people who could potentially 'devalue' the land."

"Rural skirmishes can be controlled only by forbidding controversial people from living in rural areas."

"It is appropriate to use zoning laws to punish polygamy."

Thanks for the pointers Gal50.

Looks like bigotry is rearing it's ugly head in Colorado. If Texas has shown anything, it is that the FLDS detractors are liars, and the FLDS obey the law.

Maybe as being new to the state they didn't know about all of their laws. How did they devalue the land? In texas they almost doubled the land value and now texas suddenly wants it for payment of stealing their children. This is a gag. I just read that flds women are not alowed to laugh! haaa haaa Their children can't play or have toys, The HEIGHT of their hair indicates the status they hold in the church!! IN a newspaper (I forgot which) their great crime was that they just kept building and buildong!! OH man Terrible. According to Caroline, NO Education is allowed, sex is taken away from them??? there are strict rules against obese women. Dude do people really believe this stuff? Flds do not have modern technology and are afraid of it?!! Not allowed to use the internet? I guess they post through osmosis in terror. Now I want to add some of the more sober slander. They abuse children, force people to marry, rape, kick young boys out, split up families, kill baby boys, oh and then they train them up to be preditors. By the way did I mention that mormons have horns?