Posted on 03/03/2010 8:10:09 AM PST by JoeProBono
ORANGE, Calif. – A California man who tried to save water and money by removing his front lawn is being taken to court. Quan Ha pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor count for violating Orange city code. He faces up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Ha and his wife replaced their grass with wood chips in 2008. They said they'd just had a baby and began to think about her future....
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What were they thinking, they are taking money away from the collective to be redistributed to those less fortunate, how selfish of them....../heavy sarc/
I have considered astroturf in the past....zip it in in the spring, zip it out in the fall.......or green colored concrete...
And if you think only communist in other countries restricts freedom, come to the land of stupid - California.
Some municipalities here in the desert are actually paying people, per square foot, to remove lawns and replace with gravel or desert hardscape.
AKA Brady lawn. I like it! It doesn't turn yellow in winter and there's no threat of weeds.
I’ve often thought if you tried to introduce the concept of a lawn to people, it’d fall flat on it’s face.
“Okay, I’ve got this thing, it’s only one color, you’ve got to mow it every week, it takes a lot of water and fertilizer to keep it healthy, it nests unpleasant insects, turns brown, gets dug up and looks terrible, and is prone to having weeds in it you have to dig out. Interested?”
I live in a row house, but if I had a yard, I’d just landscape it with woody shrubs.
OOOOuuu bad move just remember that the more grass you have the lower your personal/household polutant CO2 count will be. No doubt if the count goes too high in the direction of CO2 you and yours will face more than just a fine from Hussein’s EPA...
After years struggling to keep a nice lawn on our hilly, tree-covered front yard, last summer I decided to let the moss overtake it. (Seriously, I read people are doing that now. Moss is green all the time, and you don’t have to mow it.) It looked awful. Luckily, I have neighbors that never complain (to our faces)... This spring I plan to try planting a groundcover. ;-)
Now that looks beautiful. The moss on my lawn didn’t look like that at all... lol.
Moss in you lawn is an indication that your soil is too acidic. You need to fertelize regularly with lime to sweeten the soil. Sweet soil, no moss.
Man, his a$$ is grass.
In Hayward, CA, you cannot work on your car repair in your own driveway, but you can move your car to a neighbor`s driveway and work on it there!- because the law doesn`t say anything about your neighbor`s driveway.. This is really true. Stupid is as stupid does.
In Hayward, CA, clotheslines are prohibited in front of the house. So the Mexicans immigrants {illegals? dunno] came up with a brilliant idea: They built stones fences around the front lawns and hung all their wet laundry on the stone fence to dry. True!
UPDATE:
Mar 3, 6:59 PM EST
Official: Grass case against Calif. man to be cut
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Southern California man who removed his grass to save water now has enough drought-tolerant plants to comply with an ordinance requiring 40 percent of a yard be covered with live landscaping.
Orange City Attorney David DeBerry says he will ask that the case against 36-year-old Quan Ha be dropped at a March 16 hearing.
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