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The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

After his arguments failed to convince bylaw officers, Ruck took his case to court. Legal precedent supports naturalised gardening in Ontario, where in 1996 a court ruled that Sandy Bell, a Toronto gardener, had the right to express her environmental beliefs through gardening, overturning a fine issued to her under the city’s weeds and grass bylaw.

But Ruck, who represented himself, lost his case on procedural grounds after arguing that the city had applied the bylaw unfairly and arbitrarily. Now on the hook for the municipality’s legal bills of $6,000 (£3,450), he has filed an appeal.

Damn that sucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think might be a little more too this.

Mississauga is pretty clear one two things: grass no longer than 20cm and a ban on 25 specific nuisance weeds.

So just don't grow grass or those 25 weeds?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here are the "nuisance weeds":

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Black dog strangling vine

Named like an RPG miniboss.