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The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
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Cities need reeducation to battle NIMBYs against this crap. In my region you see this all the time and he's right: the application of the law is unequal. Cities will cite people with houses in poor and working class neighborhoods before citing anyone in rich neighborhoods with the same thing.
This is probably resultant from two things:
the city seeing poorer neighborhoods as projects to fix. They see the possible decline property values and thus tax.
NIMBYs