Posted on 06/16/2012 11:07:10 AM PDT by Altariel
Tulsa? Good God. what a travesty and sham of a job of “enforcement”. Heads should roll.
Gardening ping?
Hope she wins. My neighbor had a gorgeous vegetable garden on her front lawn, but in boring, stultifying suburbia, the neighbors complained and she was forced to remove it. She’s put her house on the market and sewed the front yard with weeds.
I’ve experienced city inspectors like this. They’re given authority and believe it makes them God. Damn the ordinances, I’m in charge here.
I hope her suit goes through.
I hope the city of Los Altos, California never gets this idea, or Ros Creasy will be in deep kimche. She wrote the book(s) on edible landscaping, and her front and back yards are proof.
Nah, they won’t (although in a sane world they would). You must not live in the area. The Tulsa City government and bureaucracy is a hotbed of busybody, “I-know-what-is-good-for-you”, wanna-be-an-East-Coast-elite, lefty liberals (at least for Oklahoma). I am glad I live outside of the city limits now (but, unfortunately, not out of Tulsa County).
Dandelions are also edible...
Poor lady, she was living on Tulsa thyme.
Those idiots sound like they wouldn’t even recognize a grape vine if it grew all over them.
Maybe she could get speedier service in small claims court.
Here is the Google street view of her house. Her big sin is probably upsetting a neighbor with ties to the city because her garden looked like an over-grown lawn. It isn’t exactly a showplace neighborhood. Everything looks like of run-down per street view.
She should have demanded a warrant for removing and damaging her property.
I smell a lawsuit.
And if purpose cultivated in a garden they would be OK. But this is a chitty city too big for its breeches.
Of MoochHell 0bama can dig up the roses and lawn that have been there for decades, in the yard to the mansion that they are squatting in, that belongs to the citizens of the USA, to plant veggies, and be praised by all the world, why can’t a lady do the same on her own property?
(sorry for that horrible sentence construction)
If she wasn’t keeping control of the plants and they were creeping out into a neighboring yard, that might be cause for concern. But there’s no hint of this.
Ive experienced city inspectors like this. Theyre given authority and believe it makes them God. Damn the ordinances, Im in charge here.It's called Rule of Men, vs Rule of Law.
It's disgusting, and illegal.
MINT? Never, never let mint get loose in a garden by planting it! Keep it confined in a pot, sunk into the ground, or grow it in an above-ground planter. Once you have it, you can NEVER get rid of that crap! Unless, all you want is mint, mint, mint everywhere.
This is a pig sty. It is one thing to have a garden and another to have a pig sty in the front yard. She sounds like a nutcase. If the plants meant that much to her, she should have taken better care of them.
Take me back to Tulsa. I’m too young to marry.
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