Comments on: Couple Fined for Letting Lawn Die During a Drought

By: bancer

bancer — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:21:36 +0000

I dug my front lawn up, landscaped it and now have a drought resistance native garden….instead of grass….much better…and needs not a lot of water….

silly law…but then again…it isCalifornia…..and how good are the narcy neighbours…lol

By: Stephanie Rogers

Stephanie Rogers — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:12:05 +0000

I agree, Leslie. I’m a renter, so I can’t go all out like I’d like to, but luckily my landlord is pretty nice so I’ve been slowly smothering the grass and planting drought-hardy native landscaping and edibles. The rest of my grass is brown as all get-out, and luckily my neighbors don’t care.

By: Leslie @ the oko box

Leslie @ the oko box — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:46:13 +0000

This is crazy – I wish everyones lawn would die, so that they could plant native plants and food instead. Native plants are much more drought resistant. Grass takes so many resources to maintain it’s almost a tragedy how uneducated people are about the useless nature of their lawn. These people should not pay the fine, and dispute it’s silliness.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:57:19 +0000

Furthermore, the idea that the government can steal from you (fine) because your private property does not meet certain aesthetic conditions is repugnant to any rational definition of a free society. The Founding Fathers would be disgusted.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:43:39 +0000

Gustavion,

We live in a world permeated with the stupidity of government intervention. Government regulation and water quotas have replaced the market and price mechanism for the distribution of scarce supplies. It is madness, and I lay the blame squarely at the public education system for churning out ignorance, which of course is another function of government.

By: Gustavion

Gustavion — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:39 +0000

This is a ludicrous implementation of a ludicrous law. The city government shouldn’t have regulation on you personal lawn taste. Further, doesn’t someone in that city have a heart to consider the cost and difficulty of nurturing a lawn in a drought?