A Florida city has been the site of a heated legal battle over the property rights of homeowners.
When one thinks of the typical American household, it wouldn’t be out of the question to imagine a nice little garden, perhaps one with a few vegetables even, in front of it. Apparently, however, the Miami Shores Village Council feels that such a decoration is out of the question because back in 2013, the council voted to amend zoning laws to prohibit vegetables gardens in residents’ front yards.
Couple Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts were preparing to comply with the council’s order when authorities threatened to slap them with a $50 fine for every day it took to relocate their garden to their backyard. Incensed at this action, the couple struck back and sued the city.
Arguing that the ban on front yard gardens infringes on the property rights of residents, Carroll and Ricketts are maintaining that the ban not only violates the Florida Constitution but also the equal protection clause as it only outlaws vegetable gardens in front yards.
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Just another spider web out from an original topic that I she with. Even if it isn’t their intention to only make hybrid seed available & control food supply
Continuation of prior post: Even if there not trying to take over food supply through hybrid seed, the fact that were even questioning it shows our mistrust of govt. Scary time to be American!
they might get three crops of various grown if you rotate big brother sticks us again.
Life liberty and pursuit of happiness. ..having a garden makes them happy! !
Florida is so fucked up. Cops everywhere, dumb asses everywhere, the State won’t allow renewable energy systems, everything is illegal, full of bugs, heat, humidity. Hopefully global warming drowns the entire state. And soon.
They should be admired for wanting to eat proper food and for wanted to grow their own. What is wrong with that??
Let them grow food to eat, quite neat idea.
I have noticed on this page that a lot of stories are recycled.
You don’t ever really own anything….taxes
Because our government wants us dependent on them.