When local govt. over-reaches: When asked why fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, but not in the front?, "officials had no answer"
Because that would affect people who 'putter' around?
IU grad and former WPLG-TV/Channel 10 weekend anchor Rob Schmitt has the details on this curious zoning decision re sustainable gardening from the belly of the beast out in Cali -Glendale, California. That's a city that gave us one of the first real S&L/Thrift debacles, an
investigation I worked on in Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles Times
LA Now blog
Glendale residents ordered to remove fake grass from front yards
November 16, 2011, 2:17 pm
Some cities offer rebates for residents who install water-saving artificial lawns in their front yard. But in Glendale, city leaders approved a ban on the faux grass and have begun issuing warnings to violators.
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*My personal experience is that the LA Now breaking news blog of the LA Times is very informative and often provides a perspective that the MSM doesn't provide to LA-based stories that I hear about elsewhere.
So how come the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel have nothing like it? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/
See Artificial Turf Demonstration Project - SYNLawn on the City of Glendale website: http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/artificialturfSYNLawn.asp
City of Glendale, California Comprehensive Design Guidelines, Final Draft of October 17, 2011, includes photos:
Glendale Zoning Code, Chapter 30 -deals with artifical turf:
KABC-TV video: Turf war over fake lawn in Newport Beach. Jan. 23, 2008.
The Cost of the Savings and Loan Crisis: Truth and Consequences
by Timothy Curry and Lynn Shibut*
FDIC Banking Review, 2000
