In the town I live in, to have a horse you are required to have five acres. If you want to have a horse business you have to have at least 20 acres. I do not remember how the numbers work but 20 acres goes up the more horses you want to have there.
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That seems to be the general (to me, rather shocking) consensus, yes.
I can’t agree, but I thank you for being polite about it. 
I don’t understand why this is a strange concept. I grew up on 25 acres, and my parents didn’t want any of the buildable land (what wasn’t flood plain) to be developed. When it came up for sale after the owner passed, they bought it making the total 65. The other property nearby grows grapes, and I don’t know if you have ever heard the cannon things they use to scare animals away, but they are LOUD. Is it obnoxious for their neighbors when it goes 24/7? Yes. 100%. And they are over a quarter a mile away from this property. Should those people not grow grapes and have a winery? My parents were there before the grape growers were and are on good terms with neighbors. They asked them if they could not have the thing going overnight so they could sleep. The neighbors appeased the request thankfully.
You can’t pick your neighbors and they have the right, just as you do, do do whatever is allowed locally with their property.
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Someone has been quick to judge what others have done with their properties, while not sharing what they themselves have done to illustrate that their’s aren’t empty, vacuous assessments but lived values.
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This thread reminds my why I dropped out of my horse community HOA’s Buildium web site. Too much quarreling; too little civility.
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Couldn’t agree more with this post.
Laws and zoning exist for a reason. Expect neighbors to do whatever is legal on their property. You’ll be happier for it.
I also agree that we have to be cautious. Some people are truly unhinged and may try to harm horses, dogs, cats …. Etc.
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Thank God the neighbors don’t complain about all my flowers and the smells they bring, else I’d have to tear them out.
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Tear out the neighbors? Sounds good.
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Id hazard a guess - condo. With an HOA. Of which she/he is a board member, or a busy body who does a lot of reporting.
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No. The owner of a small farm, with obnoxious, self-important neighbors on one side.
That should have been obvious, even to the meanest intelligence.
I don’t understand why it’s shocking that the property owner can build whatever they want on their own property as long as it falls within all codes and ordinances? I have a dear friend who has owned her property for YEARS. She rides in the evening when she gets off work. A new neighbor asked her to not ride after 7pm because their own dogs bark and wake up the baby.
What should my friend do? Not ride at all on her private property except for the occasional weekend? The new neighbor didn’t even consider bringing her own dogs inside to prevent them from barking.
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Me thinks some introspection is in order regarding which one of yall is the “self-important” one…
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Lots of things are simultaneously legal and obnoxious. Legality’s not the point.
The OP’s sense of entitlement is shocking to me - as if every human on earth is somehow obligated to find her little venture absolutely adorable, no questions asked. (Water the arena as requested? No way!) Add in a completely phony, 100% Karen-ish campaign to smear an old man as a pedophile just because he won’t fall in line, and yeah - I really am kinda shocked.
But the majority of the posters here apparently see absolutely nothing wrong with all this. Because ponies? Because “patriarchy”?
Please. 
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I have a dear friend who has owned her property for YEARS. She rides in the evening when she gets off work. A new neighbor asked her to not ride after 7pm because their own dogs bark and wake up the baby. Neighbor bringing in her dogs in the evening is not a option according to neighbor.
What should my friend do? Quit riding during the week?
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How about discussing it with the neighbor as if she was a real human being?
Jeez. 
I told you the discussion already.
Neighbor “Could you not ride after 7pm, you make my dogs bark and that wakes up the baby.”
Friend “that’s the only time I have to ride after I get home from work, since I usually ride at the same time could you bring your dogs in for a few hours?”
Neighbor “no.”
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Hey, if she made an honest effort to come to a compromise - that is, a real conversation - and it didn’t work, okay.
But the OP hasn’t done anything like that. She refuses to do the one thing the neighbor asked - water the arena - and instead went to the police to hint around that the guy might be a pedophile.
Do we see a difference there?
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OP purchased a dust screen. Sounds like an attempt to compromise to me. She wasn’t required to do anything yet she did
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The neighbor specifically asked her to do one single thing: water the arena. She pointedly and intentionally will not do it. Why? Who knows.
I’m guessing she just wants to win.
But in the example of my friend you said that she had made an honest effort to come to a compromise and it didn’t work so it was ok.
OP can’t afford to water the arena daily at this moment, but she can afford to purchase a dust screen. I am not understanding how that doesn’t fit your definition of compromise?
Perhaps you should look again at who’s being self important and entitled. It isn’t the property owner who’s made an effort to please their neighbor’s demands.
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