Mario Giorno wrote:
Still, such neighbors exist, and the statutes exist, so the potential for abuse exists. I can even cite some personal experience: about a year after I'd moved into my house, one of my neighbors decided to "trim" the bushes in front of my house by chopping them down to stumps. Without my consent, BTW.Folks,
This weed citation is foolish. There's no across the board
method for citing such a thing in a way that couldn't be grotesquely
abused by the people making the complaints. There must be hundreds of
residences with at least one weed that may be in excess of 10 inches
at any given time in this city. It's one thing to want to keep
Philadelphia looking clean and orderly, it's another to pelt people
with these poorly regulated statutes that aren't properly and
equitably enforced by the city government. Unless the city appoints
landscaping police, it's foolish to think that you're at the mercy of
a disgruntled neighbor who has an abusive green thumb under which we
are all are pinned.
They grew back, happily, and although they're not the prettiest landscaper's choice in the world, I figure I'll keep'em there just to spite Paul Bunyan. But the incident showed me that there were people who'd probably be tickled pink to have a city _agency_ act on their particular gardening whims.
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