Re: Yard Work

On 6/9/2024 3:52 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

I got a threatening letter sent to everyone in town that if front yards
weren't cleaned up fines would be issued.
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Now this entire business started with the FAKE man-made global warming
scam. California, like always, had three dry years and the state and
cities (Jerry Brown, Democrat) threatened everyone that we would all die
unless we stopped watering out lawns.
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The towns and cities all threaten4ed very large fines for watering lawns
and -people allowd their lawns to die in a town that was known for its
neat lawns and front yards.
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So people thinking it their civil duty (safe and effective ring any
bells?) allowed their lawns to die.
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The fact is that none of the reservoirs built for just this had any
substantial lowering of their water levels. So now with dead earth where
lawns used to be, when the rains returned, weeds flourished on the
otherwise vacant land. I used a string cutter to cut everything down to
reasonable length but they wanted "lawn length" so rather than getting in
another ride today, I stayed home and mowed the weeds down to lawn
levels. At the moment, the state ground water level is the highest it has
been in 70 years and lakes are popping up all over the place and low
lands are lower than the ground water levels. A couple of large lakes
have formed where roads used to be. Can't trick mother nature.
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Well, I completely filled the large Greens Bin so I can't continue until
next Friday's pickup. But 90% of the front and back yard are finished. I
do need to take the string cutter to all of the stuff poking up through
the cracks in the cement to make the yard passable and I have to hire a
tree serice to remove three trees that have grown to unmanageable size
with aoll of the water. Then I will have to get new smaller growing trees
And I need a Japanese Maple that is out of hand to be properly trimmed by
someone that knows how to cut them correctly.
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All of this to correct a problem that would not have exsisted without a government.
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And it is nothing mmore than lost riding time.
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Why is the city business what your front yard is like?

It isn't, tommy is making things up again as usual. This is what San LEandro has to say about yard maintenance:
https://www.sanleandro.org/321/Overgrown-Vegetation-Landscaping
Essentially, they consider unmowed yards over 18" to be a health issue, and other shrubs/trees should not obstruct the sidewalk or roadway as a safety issue.
 From the descriptions of tommys house, none of this seems to apply to him. No one will telling tommy to take down any trees unless they pose a safety/obstruction issue.
You've been here long enough. Roger, you _know_ this is just another daily bitch from him.
Certainly in uk,

unless it’s a health hazard or similar, the council has no power to fine
whatsoever.
 Mind you in the other way some folks pave over there lawn but don’t pay for
a dropped kerb and occasionally are intransigence enough that the council
puts bollards in to prevent them driving over the kerb.
 Roger Merriman
 

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