In a purely symbolic move on Tuesday, November 5, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors discussed a “Right To Industry” ordinance that would tell anybody living near industrial activity in the County to just shut up about any nuisances the “industry” may generate.
The proposed ordinance is along the lines of the County’s controversial “right to farm” ordinance from the 1990s, which told people living near farms to grin and bear it.
The logic was, and is, “This stuff was here before you moved in, and if it bothers you, leave,” a gross oversimplification that sounds good to County’s ag “community.”
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