An Ottawa couple who maintain a small vegetable and herb garden next to the sidewalk in front of their home say they’re saddened and frustrated after a bylaw officer gave them until July 30 to remove the wooden structures around it. To read more: http://www.cbc.ca/1.3141354
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22 Comments
The government needs to fuck off. Safety hazard ????? lmao!!!!! Pleeeeeease!!! Think about that asinine logic you stupid fucking security guard failure.
I wish I could get down there to help on the 30th. I don't mind going to jail
people should go down on the 30th to support them
The 'safety concerns' of the wooden structure…
…meanwhile, the street has thousands of automobiles in front that obstruct the sidewalk just as much.
I am of two thoughts on this issue.
The safety issue is a concern. But to what degree would depend on the neighbourhood.
My other concern is for the insensitiveness of the by-law committee. With a negative report by one neighbour and the support by far greater, it doesn't bode well for democracy.
Furthermore to have them tear out the garden, which by the way looks well kept and healthy, before they can reap what they've sown is a pathetic display of governing and wreaks of pour judgement.
As for that neighbour, rather, whistle-blower….
"May you plant a garden and grow a conscience"
Security risk….we'll do whatever we can to keep cigarettes around but, a few wooden boxes close to a sidewalk…the line has been drawn!
Absurd government doing their best.
Thought you owned the land you bought! Lol you don't own anything now, not even the right to feed yourself!! Government overreach!!!!
Nazi laws now in Canada!!!! Some one doesn't like the look of the flag can we take it down to???? Lol
Leave their garden alone. He's a hard working Joe and uses gardening to relax and possibly to help with PTSD. He is choosing gardening as a healthy way to distress. Maybe that's the problem he isn't running around causing problems for the police making bets look bad so they can disarm them. Heavens forbid a soldier does something constructive instead of destructive with his time. I guarantee you that once he digs his heels in and he already said no one will mess with his garden, he means it. Never piss a soldier off by messing with his woman or what relaxes him.
Because it looks horrible. My neighbors did the same thing except with the planters, but removed them because they are moving and nobody was buying the house because they were so ugly and stupid.
Land of the free to follow rules and regulations!!!
These people need to change their garden and the problem they created goes away. Essentially, they're claiming public space for their exclusive use. I can't support this, garden or otherwise.
BTW, our family also has a BIG organic veggie garden that occupies our entire front "lawn" area. We have very little grassy area remaining. When we started the garden, we determined or property lines, knowing that we couldn't control what happens to any part of our garden that spilled into the street right-of-way (public property). It appears these people want to use public property for their own purposes, by extending their garden past their property line and up to the curb.
Safety concerns over a wooden box? sorry but I have to call bullshit on that one. If it's in the property line that someone owns, they can put whatever the fuck they want there. Nobody's gonna be walking all over the front garden and trip over it easily, as I can see from this video the garden is a good few inches away from the pathway. Clearly not gonna harm anyone from walking past it. It's not obstructing the full pathway to walk on.
I've seen plenty properties having a front gardens and they're perfectly fine, they never obstruct where someone walks. Some have hedges, or fences or even walls around the perimeter of a garden.
Freedom anywhere is but an illusion. Those in the 1% are the only ones who do as they please. I am so tired of being part of this crazy rule filled oppressive world. Something has got to give.
5000 dollar fine max for infringing on "public land".I could go out get plastered and get caught driving[this is purely hypothetical folks, no way am I endorsing or encouraging such criminal acts] and if it was your first offense or maybe even your second you would not receive such a punitive fine.Now I'm sensible enough to know that his chances of receiving such a harsh punishment are very slim,but technically he could if found guilty of said offence .I don't know what goes on in Kanata,or what the back story is between the gentleman with the garden and the piece of crap who informed on him,is but wow,to put a fellow human under such duress for such a trivial matter,he must have a hole where his heart should be.The world,my friends,teeters on the brink of mass insanity
Pathetic! Who cares about the idiot who can't put down his or her phone and end up tripping over the garden, they probably do the same thing driving, but that's not a safety hazzard is it… $5000 fine for growing veggies, $100 fine for driving with Ur phone. Where are the crews to take peoples driver's license away!
$10.00 wort of SOD would help you "Brown" spot go away!
first off i love the garden looks great. i would take a stand as you are doing. the city/ bylaws should step back and really look at what its hurting nothing. go ahead and let them rip it out than on august first you plant plants again without a wooden structure but this time plant big cactus. now that might be a safty hazard to the little kid who crashes his bike or the adult who texts while walking. good luck to you guys
People show up to remove garden, Vet kills garden threat, saves the universe.
The wooden structure creates a safety hazard to people on the sidewalk BS!!! Its only a hazard to someone running across their yard. I'm so happy I live on the edge of a small town, we don't have to deal with this BS.
You're serious, eh?
You guys gotta get to city hall and make some changes