Jail for front yard garden

[Sweater Cows!]

and definition of the word 'suitable'.

 

Oak park City front yard gardens, against the law or not?

 

 

 

[Sweater Cows!]

Yay, my link actually worked on the first try! for once

[Willy]

I don't think it's the plants that are of concern. I think the boxes used for the plants is really what people have a problem with.

[Sweater Cows!]

Those are the standard way to build raised beds in case your not familiar with them. It is much better than growing directly in the ground. But they could 'pretty' them up a little bit rather than the standard wood framing. Paint them or stencil them to look like lattice or something.

[Lisa O'Brien]

Wow this is ridiculus, I was just outside looking at all of my mothers neighbors lawns - most are all yellow/brown (dead). Pretty soon the city will start ticketing people for not watering their lawn (it does look hideaous but with water rates who can afford to water). Nice that the local government can dictate what you can or can't grow (legal vegetation) on your own property.

[Sweater Cows!]

To me I think it is despicable that people water lawns at all. With the resource of water being so important for our survival it sure seems like a waste to use it for grass. It seems people who live in regions where grass is not natural(desert out west for example) should not try to grow grass and waste thousands upon thousands of gallons of water and should instead try to make their landscape fit into the natural environment of the land where they live.

 

Whenever I go into town and see sprinklers shooting 50% of the water for the grass out onto US10 at certain locations I think about how irresponsible those people are being with our fresh water supply. the fresh water supply won't last forever, and studying about it is quite the eye opener.

 

Bottled water is another disgrace on our society. There is a film about how the Nestle company really screwed over the residents over by Evart by contaminating and wrecking peoples wells and water supply's.

[XLFD]

Ridiculous, but it begs the question:

Are 476 foot wind turbines 'suitable' for Riverton Township in places where they can be seen? 

The Zoning gurus of the Mason Co. Planning Commission unanimously think so.  Yet, they say many mobile/modular homes are not, and find issue when the Hackert's try to add on to their existing buildings and create jobs.  Time for most of the regular commissioners to finish ignoring the people, and agree on unsafe setbacks for these behemoths.    

[Willy]

Good points XLFD. It's amazing all the stink the County raised over the Hackerts and all the grief they gave them. It also shows how silly these Councilors can be and how can they appear to be so obviously corrupt. It's almost like a mini Washington D.C. There should be an add in the Mason County visitors guide bragging about Mason County being  the  breeding ground for insensitive, corrrupt, brain dead, sleazy politicians.

[Dave]

I heard a little something about this... like most things in this vain, its pretty stupid that the city would be making a stink of it. It would be one thing if they were not taking care of the plants but they are taking great care plus are producing something that will help sustain them.... all grass does is grow. I imagine sooner or later the city will figure out that the whole thing is making them look stupid and let them keep the garden.