Disheartened by Costilla County Zoning Ordinances

The rule of law has been replaced by the arbitrary rule of ma. The wording of the building code is such that everything is at the discretion of the board and landowners are at the mercy of their whim and will. Nowhere in the land use code do I see the rights of property owners being protected and preserved. It looks to me like the commissioners have planted a packet of viper's eggs into the Facebook. You won't know about their treachery until you get bit. I can't imagine anyone of modest means being able to build legally under the current code. It is cumbersome, expensive and you are at the mercy not of law but of other people's whims. You can't build in a watershed without approval (by definition all land is part of a watershed. You can't cut down your own trees for firewood. You can't dig a hole without going through a dizzying array of boards and applications. What is wrong with these people? Ignorant and lazy?-adopting some other county's land use ordinances without thinking about how it will impact the people? Fanatical, misanthropic environmentalists who firmly believe that the best county is one devoid of humans and human dwellings. Government has been hijacked by people who do not seem to care or understand the needs and struggles of the poor. I only hope that this code is more honored in the breach than in the observance because it is an ugly oppressive mean-spirited document which undermines the property rights of the poor and the their ability to build and maintain private property secure from the arbitrary whims of government officials.