By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON February 16, 2011 – That Boulevard outside your house may not be your property – but it is about to become your responsibility – and you’re going to have to cut the grass when it starts growing again.
City Council decided this week that you have to cut that grass and if you don’t – the by-law enforcement officer will drop by and he won’t be having a cup of coffee with you. Most people who have a boulevard outside their house already cut that grass – we do, but now we have to cut it.
And you are going to have to cut it short too. If it isn’t cut to about two and a half inches and weeds grow and they show – you may have to pick those weeds as well. But if you cut the grass regularly and keep it short the By-Law enforcement Officer will drive by and smile – and you’ll like the look of the street you live on.
Ward 1 council member Rick Craven smiled when the matter was being discussed at a Community Development Committee. He has a constituent who doesn’t cut the grass – ever – and places a sign on his boulevard saying the grass is “natural” and is not be cut. We can see a problem developing in Aldershot over that one. We all have to play nice and look the same – no room for some oddball look in Burlington.
No word on whether or not the city is going to allow artificial turf on the boulevards.