:yes: Everything @fordtraktor says.
While I have 5 different Sub-Ds just down the road from me, my nearest neighbors are on 5ac or smaller lots.
Only 1 has horses, but local zoning prohibits dividing a less than 10ac plot, so for now we are safe.
So far no complaints about my horses - smell or otherwise.
One guy regularly takes away about 1/2 my composted manure every year for his gardens.
Another gal walks several miles & always stops to see the horses & feed approved (by me) treats.
We’ve even become friends.
Biggest problem is the increased traffic on my roads - no shoulder on either side, just 4’ ditches.
When I first moved in I could ride down the roads to visit, even now I do take short drives with my mini, but have had some less-than-pleasant drivers pass waaaaaaay too close or even honk at me & mini though we display the required SMV sign on the cart, :mad:
Horseowning friend down the road (moved last Summer) bordered a huge sub-d & prior owners had high, no see-through, vinyl fencing up between them.
Don’t know if the developer had paid for this or if cost was shared or if former owners did it themselves.
At any rate, it was a decent visual barrier for 1st floor windows on the houses, but 2nd floors could peek right in & see her outdoor arena & pastures.
Fence did not prevent one Crazy from cutting down trees - at their bases! - that grew on friend’s property but reached over the fence onto Crazy’s. Cutting offending branches I get, but the whole tree???
ETA:
When I had the barn built I had the excavator dump dirt along the front of my property forming an 8’ high X 25’ long berm. This is planted with perennials & one convenient volunteer tree at one end.
Visual barriers are a Good Thing.
