Property Line Issues by Dennis Carroll June 6, 2010

From: "Dennis Carroll"
To: "glenn eugster"
Sent: Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:17:21 PM
Subject: property line issues

Hi Glenn,

A few quick points:

(1): Sharon Annear came by and looked over the mess along the property line and in the buffer area. She said that she will strongly recommend removal and bagging of the pigweed and other weeds in the whole buffer area. She would also like to arrange a walk-through with property line residents and city officials.

(2) A Hispanic guy showed up yesterday (Saturday) and spent a few minutes mowing two swaths (about 4 feet wide) along the cyclone fence in back of my yard. It was absurd that he was not authorized to mow the whole buffer area. It would have taken him only a few more minutes and would have cost the city (figuring that the guy was probably being paid close to the minimum wage) next to nothing. Also, the mowing merely flattened many of the pigweeds instead of actually cutting them. As much as anything in the past 6 years, this business of mowing a swath instead of the whole buffer area has convinced me that we are dealing with city officials who go out of their way to be unresponsive and uncooperative. I am tempted to speak my mind at the upcoming meeting and say that I find their decisionmaking incredible and irrational.

(3) The swath along my fence made visible another unpleasant fact: bales of hay have been jammed against my fence where it joins Fulton's fence on the park side. Apparently, these were added to prevent erosion, but the net effect is to further impound the water in my yard. Now it can't flow into Fulton's yard and it can't even flow sideways into the park. I am going to check to see if the jammed-up water is weakening my corner fence post as a key support for the fence. I am also going to create at least a small channel through the hay in the near future.

(4) Regarding the "no mow" policy: Lynn and I have found 4 ticks on our Scottie and 3 on ourselves. These 7 ticks exceed by 6 the total number of ticks that we've encountered in the 6 years prior to the "no mow" policy.

(5) If nothing more is done to get rid of the pigweed mess in back, I'll be increasingly tempted to harvest another armful and bring them to the Mayor's office. Six years of this stupidity is long enough.

--Dennis