Church member Eddie Sells stands under one of the trimmed crape myrtles at Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church. The church's fine has drawn comments from across the nation
—Atlas Shrugged
Sounds like the simple solution would be to just remove the trees altogether and let Charlotte be known as the city too stupid to have trees.
Sounds like the simple solution would be to just remove the trees altogether and let Charlotte be known as the city too stupid to have trees.
Yep, we’re living a tyranny.
And for the record, a crape myrtle is not a “tree,” its a weed that blooms.
I’d tell the career dictator wanna-bees that the church is going to replace the overly-pruned branches in 6 to 8 months. They just need to be patient.
How does one improperly prune a crepe myrtle, a tree that grows faster than many weeds?
There must obviously be something going on that’s not mentioned here. I’m guessing a feud between the city and the church. Maybe some animosity between a city council memeber and someon on the church board.
Or maybe the city just has a severe case of HUA.
I dunno. This law sounds awfully subjective.
“When they are nonrepairable, when they have been pruned beyond repair, we will ask them to be replaced,” Johnson said. “We do that for a number of reasons but mainly because they are going to come back unhealthy and create a dangerous situation down the road.”
This is the kind of thinking that allows governments to control everything from skydiving to collecting rainwater, to personal hygiene.
Church member Eddie Sells stands under one of the trimmed crape myrtles at Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church. The church's fine has drawn comments from across the nation
Tom Johnson, JAAWSP*
... Just Another A**hole With Some Power
Our church is in an area with a good number of restrictions; it's in an upscale planned development area of our city. Ordinances require we maintain our landscaping at a high level, which was a good size cost for the church since we own a lot of land but are only growing the buildings in phases as the church grows.
We brought landscaping back in house, buying our own equipment and forming volunteer teams to do the work. We have saved a good deal of money, but we had to learn some ordnance lessons along the way.
Our city has a sound ordnance that restricts when lawn equipment can be operated. We got turned in for starting too early and got fined. They also have restrictions around bed areas vs grass areas, etc.
Every two or three years I trim my Crape Myrtle’s back to the sticks. They always come back and need it again 3 years later.
This is BS. Theft is what this is.
No one in my town can tell me what to plant, harvest or trim if it is not on city property.
I guess the lefty statist control freaks havent gotten around to us yet!
Trim them into the shape of a cross. Dare the bureaucrat to cut it down.
When a government has a “senior urban forester” it’s not the trees that need pruning.
On Sun TV recently, there was an interview with a fellow from Cambridge, Ontario and in this instance, city staff actually broke into the fellow’s house while he was out and tore out a ‘non-compliant’ staircase ……and then sent him a bill for it. Absolutely frightening when city bureaucrats have turned into totalitarian jackbooted thugs! Here’s the interview with Ezra Levant… http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/all/while-you-were-out/963726178001/page/2