] On Behalf Of Jonathan
CassSent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:10 PMTo:
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univcity@list.purple.comSubject: RE: [UC] PM-302.3
Weeds
It is good to see that the City is finally
cracking down on all youlay-abouts. Good god --most UC homeowners
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: univcity@list.purple.com
Subject: RE: [UC] PM-302.3 Weeds
It is good to see that the City is finally cracking down on all you
lay-abouts. Good god -- most UC homeowners only have about 400 square feet
of property
Mario Giorno wrote:
Folks,
This weed citation is foolish. There's no across the board
method for citing such a thing in a way that couldn't be grotesquely
abused by the people making the complaints. There must be hundreds of
residences with at least one weed that may be in excess of 10 inches
PHILADELPHIA PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
SECTION PM-302. EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREAS
PM-302.3 Weeds: All premises and exterior property shall be maintained
free from weeds or plant growth in excess of 10 inches (254 mm). All
noxious weeds shall be prohibited. Weeds shall be defined as all
Title: RE: [UC] PM-302.3 Weeds
I will say that when I was having problems with my neighbors and their trash, it was matt wolfe who came through. I'd been complaining to my councilwoman off and on for a year with no result, matt got it taken care of the next day.
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On Behalf Of Kirk Wattles
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:22 PM
To: UC List
Subject: [UC] PM-302.3 Weeds
PHILADELPHIA PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
SECTION PM-302. EXTERIOR PROPERTY AREAS
PM-302.3 Weeds: All premises and exterior property shall be maintained
free from weeds
Of Dan Widyono
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:02 PM
To: Kyle Cassidy
Cc: 'Kirk Wattles'; UC List
Subject: Re: [UC] PM-302.3 Weeds
I got slapped with this, some decorative grass in the front lawn
apparently
was not liked by a neighbor (who still hasn't come clean to let me know
it
was them who
Yeah right. "Decorative grass". Heh. Heard that one before. What are you raising there, Widyono, Panama Red? Hmm? Little BC Bud? Some decorative Colombian mixed in with the trailing arbutus, and the wisterias, and the travelling bamboos?
Ross Bender
http://rossbender.org
In a message dated
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gt;Reply-To: quot;Michael Clapperquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;
gt;To: quot;'UC List'quot; lt;univcity@list.purple.comgt;
gt;Subject: RE: [UC] PM-302.3 Weeds
gt;Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:06:52 -0400
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gt;I too got one of these tickets, as did several of my neighbors. Not the
gt;neighbor whose
univcity@list.purple.comSubject: Re: [UC] PM-302.3
Weeds
Yeah right. "Decorative grass". Heh. Heard that one before. What are you
raising there, Widyono, Panama Red? Hmm? Little BC Bud? Some decorative
Colombian mixed in with the trailing arbutus, and the wisterias, and the
travellin
Nicole, if you think you have it bad, check out this story from the Japan Times:
Jail muffles neighbor from hellNARA (Kyodo) A 58-year-old woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of intentionally torturing her 64-year-old neighbor by playing loud pop music almost 24 hours a day between November
A local emminent landscape architect who had planted native plants on the
grass near the curb in front of his house was cited and fined for having
weeds.
I guess one man's weed is another man's native plant. Strange how this
discussion coincided with the announcement of Bartram Garden's native
Ross, Jonathan, :P
We also have flowers, and the decorative grass served to prevent theft of
our garbage cans -- we could lock them down to the slightly-higher-than-10
grass which obviously made the neighborhood look like a war zone. Screw it,
I'll just plant the still-living (!!) bamboo in
For those concerned about future crabby neighbors:
Take a picture once a week of your house, with date proof (e.g. newspaper).
For anything that *might* be considered a weed, take closeup pictures, take
samples and have them dried and put in your legal scrapbook, include research
on the type of
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