Vanessa, Are you suggesting that being poor is an excuse for not conforming to housing regulations? I did not say whether these unmown lawns were properties of home owners or rental property. Certainly, you are not suggesting that poor people don't know what trash is or how to git rid of it? Perhaps, you feel that old cars parked in back yards for years (yes, years) is a cultural thing?
I am not asking that everyone's yard look like somethng out of Good Housekeeping. All I am asking is that the same minimum standards outlined in the housing code be enforced equally across the city. Unfortunately, owning property means that one has to live up to one's responsibilities and one of those responsibilities, in this city, is maintaining that property. By the way, the guy next to me is now out mowing his lawn for the first time this year. He has a Toro lawn mower, self-propelled, less than three years old in perfect working order, except when it hits the really high, thick weeds. Then it does bog down a bit. Some unmowed lawns are a result of laziness, not lack of resounces. Anne McCandless Jordan TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
