Comment by andai
7 hours ago
Brilliant, thanks for sharing.
I'm reminded of an article I read once, it seems to have gone offline, an interview with indie game dev Jason Rohrer. He said the city took him to court for not mowing his lawn. He ended up winning under the 1st amendment (the lawn was "free expression" or something...)[0]
I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries).
The other day I walked around the neighborhood and found this massive patch of grass and weeds that had been mowed, and scorched by the sun, so it was just mostly dead. Barely 5 minutes away, the city had fenced out special plots and paid to have a bunch of weeds instlled, to help the bees. Comedy.
[0] Edit: Yeah it's deleted. I found backups though!
https://web.archive.org/web/20150315123808/https://www.esqui...
A weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it. So everything/nothing is a weed depending on context.
> I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries).
I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you're just not required to cut down your lawn at all, unless it's a fire hazard (you have a lot of dead and dried up plants).
I think legal requirements are a US thing. I had only heard of it in HOA run places though.
Here in the UK there are no usually legal requirements, but it might be a social problem as your neighbours will not like it.
Apparently this text is part of the "International Property Management Code", which is incorporated into the municipal code of many cities?
https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPMC2024P1/chapter-3-gener...
Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn maintenance.
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