The city is tired of NO consistency with boulevard landscaping in town (and those pesky decorative mailboxes). How dare people allow their homes to look different then their neighbors. Better charge them with criminal nuisance! (I won’t get into that). So now they are suggesting a compromise of allowing up to 20% to be landscaped, and you have to get a permit from the city (never miss an opportunity to miss out on a pointless fee).
This is how I look at it. The city owns the boulevard, but the adjacent homeowner/business is responsible for maintaining it, they should be allowed to landscape it however they want to within reason, circumstance and how the area is zoned. If the city wants to TELL us how our boulevards should look, fine. You can come and mow them and trim trees in them. But since we are responsible for the maintenance, we should have a say in what goes in them.
Of course, in this document (DOC) they show a lot of bad examples. That is a whole other ball of wax, if someone isn’t maintaining it properly, then yes, they should have to. But telling people they can’t have flowers or painted green boulders (that one made me laugh) on property they maintain doesn’t make sense, seems they are getting their panties in a bunch over nothing. But since our city is run like a dictatorship, it doesn’t surprise me. Pretty soon they will start arresting people for not mowing their lawns.
why does anybody plant trees in blvds. They die, they mess up waste management running down the steets with oversized crap haulers, I would paint the damn space or put in rock, cool tile just like they will have at the indoor pool area, or better yet, get some aluminum siding like the event center and stake it to the ground. oooh that looks like chicago or detroit, big time for MMM and the council, here I thought they were for a change, kermit, kiley and michelle, who are you supporting.
Uh, they’re now arresting people for simple violations but with a criminal procedure twist. It’s a civil rights violation worthy of a federal class action. Be careful everyone. Before it was intimidation. Now it’s imprisonment.
A good many miles of boulevards in this town can only support weeds. The city claims because of record snow clearing events, more chemicals were laid down than normal. I question that statement. Have we had years with more actual snow clearing events in the past twenty years that coincide with toxic deicing compounds? Sure we have. Also, how many times this past season did side streets go untouched to let Mother Nature do its work on both the streets and vehicle suspension systems? Quite a bit actually. Boulevards are looking as bad as I have ever seen them in all my time in this, the best little city in America.
So…what the hell kind of toxic chemicals is the city laying on ours streets…AND why the hell do they dump it, thousand of tons at a time, within just a few feet of our poo river? The irony? Within a stones throw of this toxic goo is our very own household hazardous waste facility.
http://grist.org/article/need-to-de-ice-a-road-might-want-to-pass-on-the-salt/
I don’t know what kind of chemicals the city used last winter but whatever it was it was so toxic it killed the grass in my entire boulevard and not even weeds will grow there. The dirt is actually white. Tell me why I should pay good money to haul in dirt and sod or plant when the city will just kill it again this next Winter. It is just disgusting.
Gee why wouldn’t neighbors want a junk yard next to them? It should be criminal nuisance when a neighbor runs a junk yard next to them for the better part of 20 years. Better yet how does a neighbor get by running a junk yard business out of his home in the first place!
M2CW38, don’t do anything. It’s 8 years and $50k in legal expenses. They can imprison you and you’ll have a criminal record. Let the city do what they will. They’ll send you a bill but don’t pay it. They can’t take you into court for collection or judgement.
I suggest you sell your house and move. Tea and Brandon are recognized as all American cities with full constitutional privileges.
Another inside city limits possibility, buy a townhouse where everything outside is maintained by an association. Be sure the association is a Lloyd company. The city never targets Lloyd. Even if it’s a junkyard violation.
Will you all be serving in the citizen committee to determine the limits of “reason” when it comes to landscaping boulevards?