I saw the map for this thing. It is 1.5 acres that the developer was going to donate to the Village (ie city) to use as affordable housing, whereas much more area was dedicated to single family and townhouses to be sold at market rate. What that constituted would be up to them. The reason Chappelle and a bunch of the neighbors are pissed is because they don't want development. Just like... almost everywhere else. People that are in a place don't want any more houses because there's nothing in it for them, and no one likes being around other people. If anything it decreases their property value because there are more options. But that doesn't give people a right to tell someone else what they can do with their property. In my mind. I know that the mechanics of city government mean that it actually does. The countervailing force is that developers take over and bribe city governments.
But that doesn't give people a right to tell someone else what they can do with their property.
That's why it's not OK for someone the next property over to build a condominium project where there was just a home before. That's one property owner telling all the rest of the people in the neighborhood how their property is going to be for the next 50 years.
Rights end where others begin. Of course people have private property rights, but those rights don't include violating the property rights of their neighbors.
How do you come up with that? Someone who builds a condominium complex is using their own property. No one need even enter neighboring property. I understand zoning, but your argument seems to be that you can't do what you want with your property if it "affects" your neighbors. That's a slippery slope. Particularly, I mean, when you live on 150 acres and you're telling the guy on the next 150 acres he cant' build because it's "out of character with the neighborhood." Like, I understand why it annoys people, but I don't understand generically what gives them the right.
How do you come up with that?
It's called "peaceable enjoyment." It's established in common law since the old days of England. Your property rights are not absolute where your actions infringe on neighboring property owner's rights to possess and enjoy their property.
No one need even enter neighboring property.
If you can figure out how to build a condo without any noise from the people in the condos, from their cars, or lights from their units shining into the neighbors' properties you might have a case.
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