Your taxes at work in Miami Shores= Put down that lettuce! (Coral Gables: sale, lease)

[tallrick]

Since everything is illegal this does not surprise me anymore.

http://youtu.be/f9Q3LWgmpg0

[roadtrip75]

If you don't want to watch a video, here is a brief article:

Miami Shores Couple Files Lawsuit Over Ban on Front-Yard Vegetable Gardens

[straight shooter]

The federal government along with many other levels of government are promoting healthier eating, the sale of more organic fruits and vegetables, people growing their own fruits and vegetables, neighborhood vegetable gardens and city/urban community gardens, yet the Miami Shore Village is going against it. Government going against government and its citizens at the taxpayers expense. The homeowners should not have to pay and fight this one, another government agency should step in and put the Miami Shores Village back in their place. It seems as though they are interfering in the federal governments vision and plan.

[Cubanchic]

Well I hope they had a backyard so they could at least grow some veggies there. Some collards are the ornament types and well as some chillies.

So ornaments are fine but plants are not, who are these folks that are running Miami Shores?

[tallrick]

Miami Shores has the elitist attitude that they can improve living standards through beating its residents with force. It is the same everywhere since you are forbidden from owning property in the US and can only hold it conditionally by following the owner's rules and paying it a lease every year. We call it zoning and property tax, but it really amounts to "you can never own your own home". The sheep will defend it as for the "common good" but we all know that since government is no longer representing the common man, and has no common sense, it can have nothing to do with "good".

[doggiebus]

I have a vegetable garden in the backyard and some times it doesn't look all that great, so I can see how a village would't want to see a vegetable garden that doesn't look nice. I also grow pineapple plants in the front yard (a beautiful plant). I see she used many pots put into the ground (with a one or two inch of the exposed pot above the ground) that isn't ascetically pleasing to the neighbors I'm sure. It looks like she also has a drip system, which can be nicely hidden. I also see that she used a lot of black weed barrier material, while also not ascetically pleasing to the neighbors I'm sure. I wonder if she had just planted beds with out the weed barrier material (I know more work) and planted the seeds or onion bulbs directly in the ground not in the pots, if she would of gotten a better reception from the Village about her garden?

Miami Shores Village would hate this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8FfAERyXU

[Dakster]

doggiebus - I doubt she would have gotten a different response as the code mentions no vegetables in the front yard. If it was kept neat, it may now have been noticed... I'm sure the town and neighbors would have still noticed.

Aside from the guy being a little neurotic, I kinda liked his garden, even though the used his ENTIRE front yard for it and it doesn't look all that aesthetically pleasing for a front yard either. It would be a killer backyard garden though.

Can you imagine trying either in the Gables?

[Wild Style]

Dakster

I would imagine someone would blow a blood vessel if that was done in the Gables. They don't even allow pick up trucks over there, which is absurdly obnoxious to me.

[Dakster]

Pickups are now allowed, believe it or not.

How Coral Gables Has Been Doing Since It Lifted The Pickup Truck Ban | WLRN

[Wild Style]

^^

Good! What a moronic and pretentious rule to begin with!