{"id":12731,"date":"2015-09-28T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12731"},"modified":"2015-09-28T07:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T12:21:16","slug":"regulated-out-of-existence-off-gridders-forced-back-on-the-grid-camping-on-own-land-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12731","title":{"rendered":"Regulated out of Existence: Off-Gridders Forced back on the Grid, Camping on own land Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regulated out of Existence: Off-Gridders Forced back on the Grid, Camping on own land Illegal<\/a><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s something we\u2019ve reported on many times in the past \u2013 government agencies trying to regulate Off-Grid living out of existence. Throughout the country, local zoning officials have made it impossible for people to go off the grid, in many cases even threatening them with jail time for not hooking into local utilities.<\/p>\n

Because of zoning laws that target the off-grid lifestyle, many off-gridders have moved to areas in the Southwestern United States to escape overzealous zoning officials. But this week, off- gridders were dealt another blow in an area of the country that has become a magnet for people looking to live a more self-reliant lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Is Costilla County, Colorado Banning Off-Grid Living?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a battle brewing in Costilla County, Colorado<\/strong><\/p>\n

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During the last couple of years, Costilla County, Colorado has seen a huge influx in people moving into the San Luis Valley \u2013 must of who have moved there to live off the grid. A combination of cheap land, lax zoning regulations, and a community of self-reliant individuals has brought in a large number of off-grid homesteaders into the area. But that life-style is now being threatened as government officials move to make it illegal \u2014 something that is becoming a real\u00a0problem for those who are looking to buy rural land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Costilla County, Colorado Bans camping on your own Land; Zoning Officials attempt to make people hook back into the grid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week tensions reached a boiling point, as a scheduled county commissioners\u2019 meeting in San Louis, Colorado, turned into an ugly shouting match between sheriff deputies and off-grid\u00a0homesteaders<\/a>. The conflict comes as the county is attempting to ban camping, and force off-grid home owners back on to the grid.<\/p>\n

Twenty-year resident Paul Skinner summed it up at the planning commission meeting, \u201cWe are residents who have come to live off the grid. It\u2019s all our land.\u201d \u2026 \u201cThese are harsh economic times. We have nowhere to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Regulated out of Existence: Off-Gridders Forced back on the Grid, Camping on own land Illegal It\u2019s something we\u2019ve reported on many times in the past \u2013 government agencies trying to regulate Off-Grid living out of existence. Throughout the country, local zoning officials have made it impossible for people to go off the grid, in many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[5503,9351,5464,9353,483,9350,9349,9352],"class_list":["post-12731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-colorado","tag-costlier-country","tag-government-regulations","tag-homesteaders","tag-liberty-2","tag-off-grid-living","tag-off-grid-survival","tag-san-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12732,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12731\/revisions\/12732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}