What do ya'll think about this one?

mow your lawn or go to jail

I am so tired of cutting grass that I'm considering putting up some fencing and getting some goats.

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Jim

Stupid

Good thing I dont live there. My mower happens to be broken right now :/

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A guy in north Dallas ran into this some years ago. He just plowed up his front yard and planted it in wheat.

Since he was using his front yard for a garden there was nothing the city could do.

This has GOT to be Obama's fault. Or maybe Israel's.

Seems to me like people who live close to each other on relatively small properties should be considerate enough to keep their neighbors' feelings and property values in mind. If a few don't, maybe remedies are in order. Easy for me to say, that's why I don't live like that.
By the way, goats will eat all your trees, rose bushes and other landscaping and ignore your grass until it's the only thing left. They're browsers, not grazers; preferring to eat bark, leaves and berries at head height or above. You want sheep.

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I'd pave the world in that case. Or at least my yard. Though I'm betting the target of this law isn't Joe Average homeowner, but James Bankster who owns three foreclosed properties, and isn't maintaining them before they're put on the market.

This being said, I have no desire to own a house with a lawn, ever. (Unless there's a dozen or so acres of "lawn", I can keep horses, and grow my own veggies, that is )

I knew a guy who owned a giant home. It was more of an Estate. If I had to guess the house was probably 15,000 sq. ft. The estate was probably 40 acres.

This was on the edge of Dallas, but in the city limits. He was trying to find a way to keep the grass down, so he bought about five or six goats.

Two days later they had eaten everything. The grass, his shrubs and they were starting on the smaller trees. It was really amazing to watch them eating since they never stopped. I guess they slept at night, but I never saw them doing anything but eating and eating as fast as they could.

So he rounded them up and sold them by the side of the road. After that he bought a tractor and had to hire a guy to maintain the place.

He also has a landscaping company come in and replant everything.

If you want to use a goat stake it out with a chain and check on it every ten minutes. And don't let it near your shrubs.

You can also fence them in - a stake and chain is cruel.

40 acres? WTH is the point unless you farm it, have it wooded, or keep animals?

We have an anti blight law in my city but as far as I can tell it has no teeth.

I like anti blight laws, if you live in a city keep your house nice. If you want 20 cars in your front yard and crap everywhere move out to the country with the rest of them.

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2007 Tiara 3200

I'd much rather have a township law than having HOA boards capriciously enforcing anti-blight rules, as is done out West. At least township laws tend to be enforced semi-fairly and not in an insanely vigorous manner.

HOA's are rear in my area because most of CT was developed before such an idea even existed.

We don't get the big subdivision communities the states with lots of land build.

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Sooner or later, someone will get your goat.

And thank G-d for both things! I had this conversation with someone who grew up in a wealthier town in Orange County, CA.

"So, you mean, you can paint your house any color you like?"
"Well yes: your neighbors might point and laugh, but there's no law."

is this really that nice of a village.boarded up windows and doors,and unattended shopping carts.sounds more like the ghetto.