Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
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#12Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
Ticks, rodents
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#13Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
Ticks, rodents
Stay off their lawn, then? (Also, tall grass doesn’t really attract rodents. It just gives them a place to hide. Food in uncovered garbage is a much bigger issue.)
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
$500 per day is an obscene amount of fine to levy over grass.
Agreed. Better option would be to hire someone to cut the grass and bill the property owner for it.
That's how we do it in most cities in WI. Except the city gives you a written warning by mail. If you don't do it, they just charge you some flat fee to have a city worker do it. It's expensive, but nowhere near that ludicrous.
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
$500 per day is an obscene amount of fine to levy over grass.
Agreed. Better option would be to hire someone to cut the grass and bill the property owner for it.
Or... just ignore it? It's grass, not toxic waste.
Even better, subsidize it; it's valuable habitat for all kinds of species threatened by human activity.
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#16Why do people care if grass is tall? lawns were invented by rich French nobility to show off how they could afford to have nothingness gardens instead of productive farm land.
Because that's still their function. Just try growing food crops on your lawn! And "low status" neighbors makes a "low status" neighborhood makes you "low status".
Also prohibited: washing lines. What, you can't afford to inflate your carbon footprint with a dryer on this beautiful sunny day? What are you, poor?
Re: Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
#17Though its not crime where I live. But if it was, muncipal officer will give us two-three warning and later come with a team of worker, cut the grass and fine user with penalty + cost of cutting + additional panalty. Repeated violation will may lead sealing og property until the court hearing or a former apology.
Still it will never exceed $1k.