Michael Korte and wife Laura Whitney from Glendora, CA face $500 in fines and even criminal action if they don’t turn their brown lawn green again, which died because they were trying to comply with California water regulations.
Don’t you just love the government’s ability to coordinate their activities?
On Tuesday — when the couple received the letter — state regulators authorized fines up to $500 for overwatering lawns.‘Despite the water conservation efforts, we wish to remind you that limited watering is still required to keep landscaping looking healthy and green,’ the letter stated.
It included pictures of the dead lawn with a red line through it, a weedy line similarly crossed out, and finally an uncrossed green lawn with a sprinkler.
‘It is telling me I’d better get my lawn green and I have 60 days to do it,’ Laura said.Ironically, on the same day the couple received the letter the State Water Resources Control Board gave local agencies power to fine for overwatering lawns to help reduce water consumption as the state is in the third year of record low rainfall.
Should the couple wish to improve their lawn they’ll likely have to water it every day.
‘It seems like you’ll be fined if you overwater but we will be fined no matter what,’ Laura said.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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HOA DICTATORS
If you were gay, illegal or Muslum this would never have happened
Paint it green
Really p**s them off plow it the $#%&!@* up and turn it into a garden I did when I lived there pissed them off to world’s end.
This is what happens when our elected officials hire idiots to WRITE our regulations, and more idiots to ENFORCE the regulations the wrote. PS, at the EPA, some of their employees are now being given lessons on what toilets are for to keep them from crapping in the hallways.
lol right
Now that’s the government being more than stupid.
why post stupid stuff like this?
Money hungry government
Thanks to school taxes you never really own land in this country anyways…So fine the school district ………………….