Fighting for your right to have an urban garden.

Another interesting news article...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ju-zW2Si961Fuhpq_L35aYECLzYA

 

Very interesting but worrying. It just reinforces my belief that people are gradually becoming so detached from reality that there is little hope in ever seeing common sense in the world again. Luckily I'm about a third of the way through the most I can expect from life by now, so with any luck the wave of insanity and bureaucracy won't make it here before I'm too old to care.

 

Probably the same kind of neighborhood that bans people from using clotheslines, even in their back yard. My sister lives in a place like that--it's just stupid. Especially because her location in the US is very dry and almost always sunny--clothes actually dry faster on the line than in the dryer! Fortunately none of her neighbors have complained about her collapsible clothesline gizmo yet but it's only a matter of time, I'm sure.

 

Not sure I'm reading this right, but is it about running a business from your garden, or just growing a few bits and pieces of veg etc. for your own use.

Because in my eyes the two are very different, and I can see problems when a garden (yard), in an urban environment is used to make money.

 

Within the article there is this one paragraph:

"They're trying to grow it into something bigger than what should be in a small neighborhood," said Frank San Juan, who lives across the street from Kolla. "When she started having these gardening workshops without telling anybody, there was no parking. You couldn't enjoy your weekends."

It's no different to having any type of a business running in the house next door to you - customers coming and going, parking issues for customers etc. If they want to operate a business, then go to the business district and run your workshops etc. Other people who have garden centres etc., and who she is competing against are paying business rates, having certain rules to apply by etc., and all she's doing here is making a quick buck without following the rules. Not saying all the rules are right....but hey - most people manage to live by them.

 

Thinking about it, the title "Fighting for your right to have an urban garden" is a little misleading, because there's more to the story than that...

 

Yes, I was amazed to see that when we stayed with friends in Dallas - beautiful, drying weather...but all washing went into the tumble dryer...

But it does sell the story...:gnthb: