June 16th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Homeowners who don’t mow their grass in the northeast Ohio city of Canton now face stiffer penalties — including possible jail time.
The city council unanimously passed a law Monday that makes a second high-grass violation a fourth-degree misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $250 and as many as 30 days in jail.
The previous law only made the first violation a minor misdemeanor, with a fine of up to $150 but no jail time. The new law is to take effect in 30 days.
“This is the type of action we need to take in order to clean up our neighborhoods and our city,” Mayor William J. Healy II said.
The laws are an effort to reduce the roughly $250,000 the city spends to cut about 2,000 private lots each year and to address public complaints, Councilman Greg Hawk has said.
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April 20th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I understand the reason why these people did this, but if they were my neighbors they might fit into the “neighbors from hell” category:
A couple near Cincinnati is hoping to make a point with a backyard display of 15 toilets and dozens of toilet brushes. The pair launched the display in protest eight months ago after local authorities said they couldn’t build a privacy fence in the yard. The open toilets are filled with plastic flowers; a plastic skeleton sits on one. The toilet brushes stick up from the ground and are painted purple, green, blue, brown and white. When local authorities said the couple couldn’t build a six-foot-high cedar fence, they installed the toilets where the fence would have been. A township official says the toilet display doesn’t violate any zoning regulations.
Well at least they didn’t put these guys in their backyard!
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