For those concerned about future crabby neighbors: Take a picture once a week of your house, with date proof (e.g. newspaper). For anything that *might* be considered a weed, take closeup pictures, take samples and have them dried and put in your legal scrapbook, include research on the type of plant, etc. You might never need this kind of proof, but if you end up getting a ticket for several months back, it'll be handy. Oh, and measure all your non-flower plants to make sure they're below 10 inches tall. Might as well take a picture of any tall-ish plants with the ruler next to them.
Also: if the ticket "Badge Number" is 4 digits, a cop was called explicitly to file a complaint about the "weeds". Also, if the department is 1-1, again a cop wrote the ticket. If the "Badge Number" is 3 digits (unlikely for weeds), it was the streets department noticing you had tall weeds. The above (pictures, samples, ticket identifying information) is actual advice given to me by the City when I fought my ticket (round one, I ended up paying without appealing to a judge). Regards, Dan W. On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:32:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A local emminent landscape architect who had planted "native plants" on the > grass near the curb in front of his house was cited and fined for having > "weeds". > I guess one man's weed is another man's native plant. Strange how this > discussion coincided with the announcement of Bartram Garden's native plant > sale. -- -- Daniel Widyono -- -- www.widyono.net -- -- www.cis.upenn.edu/~widyono -- -- ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
