Environmentals Beware

There's a little reasoning behind the ordinances. The roots of those plants help prevent erosion. By ripping them up the Ha's set up their lawn to be a giant dust or mud bowl ( depending on the season ) which in turn could be problematic for the rest of the neighborhood. A completely stripped yard could blow dust all over the place. Leaving the grass would have been far smarter even if the yard wasn't a nice pretty green. California needs to get on the ball with some desalination plants to deal with the water shortage problems but that's no excuse for people to do stupid stuff like this.

i can understand the need to prevent erosion and dust, but why not encourage people to grow drought resistant plants? free cacti or something. lawns are perhaps not the best idea when water is short.

Do you remember, back in the day, a long long time ago, in a land far far away. People used to be able to chose what to do or not do to their property? No its true. People could plant grass, they could plant other grass, they could plant cactus. They could even plant food. I know, it sounds crazy, but its true. For the sake of time, I wont tell the whole story but just know that it involves a VERY big monster that feeds on people's rights. He just gets bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger. Then the princess gets her food stamps and never has to think again! Hope you sleep well.

That law is silly. I can see a law where you can only water the lawn on certain days such as we have up here in the Prairies when there is a drought, but to say one has to have a lawn seems rather silly. I suppose that cacti are some of the plants not allowed.

That's odd. It's so unlike California to have bizarre and invasive legislation telling people how to live their lives. [/sarcasm] You'd think that with all the problems that a$$backwards state has that officials might be trying to save money instead of wasting time enforcing such stupid regulations. I also wonder if there's an unknown agenda at play here. It reminds me of a small golf course where the owner kept getting cited and fined by the city because the trees weren't tall enough and had too much space between them. It later came out that the city kept going after him because his golf course was taking business away from one that was owned by the local government.

Looks like they need to change the city ordnances. The situation with lack of water isn't going to get any better as the population continues to grow, so the City better think ahead. The Ha's yard had some plants. I wonder how they determined that it wasn't 40%?

gewcew you always seemed to have a good understand of things this post surprised me. This is simple a way to get more money for the state and local community. You don't water your lawn and they can fine you, you water your lawn and they can collect the water and sewer revenue and then fine you for wasting water. I understand that they are considering a fine for polluting by breathing in air and exhaling pollution (CO2) and will set limits on the amount of CO2 that you will be allowed to exhale. They are looking for more was to tax people.