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26 Jul ’15 - 10:16 pm
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Seems this would be grandfathered, I recommend everyone that lives in areas like this get involved with local politics

For 17 years, Tom Carroll and his wife Hermine Ricketts tended an organic garden in the front yard of their home in Miami Shores Village, Florida. They grew everything from arugula to zinnias, mostly for home consumption. Then, one day in August 2013, disaster struck.

It wasn't a hurricane, a flood, or a drought. It was the government.

Armed with a newly amended zoning ordinance geared toward home aesthetics, Miami Shores ordered the couple to uproot their vegetable garden or pay $50 a day in fines. The village would tolerate fruit trees, flowers, or even plastic pink flamingoes in the front yard, but the veggies had to go. The couple couldn't afford the fines, so they reluctantly agreed. And then took Miami Shores to court.

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26 Jul ’15 - 10:49 pm
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That's ridiculous; what's wrong with our society?

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80 years of big govt trying to make it's citizens dependant on it I would say

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much better to have stupid useless grass that you waste water on and put a crapload of chemicals to keep it perfect and green.

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good point sim!

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