Woman Sues City Of Tulsa For Cutting Down Her Edible Garden

[chitown chicks]

Tulsa has many eye soar properties that need help. My thinking is a neighbor kept calling about hers and that is why she was targeted.

She claims she only planted varieties that would grow less than 12" tall, in keeping with an ordinance. Trees are very important to Tulsa, with an ozone alert almost daily. Why would they cut down an apple and a nut tree? Just raises a lot of questions. She also had a court date. Why wouldn't the city wait for the judge? Possibly because the city knew the judge would favor her.

Actually, I believe it said that the ordinance said your plants had to be within 12' UNLESS they were for human consumption which is why she says she didn't understand the fruit and nut trees.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Still yet, if she was in compliance and had a court date, why did they destroy everything? Why did they cut the trees down?

 

[chitown chicks]

Still yet, if she was in compliance and had a court date, why did they destroy everything? Why did they cut the trees down?

That I cannot say, obviously. I agree with a pp that we're only getting one side of this story and you just don't know unless you know, you know?

No matter how you look at it, it stinks for the lady whose garden it was and it stinks for Tulsa as well. No city wants this kind of publicity.

 

[bj taylor]

i think they would have a hard time coming onto my property to destroy my place. if a court/authority said i was in violation & required me to amend my place, so be it. i would have to comply. however, there would be some serious dissention if some guys just showed up w/demolition tools and trespassed.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

i think they would have a hard time coming onto my property to destroy my place. if a court/authority said i was in violation & required me to amend my place, so be it. i would have to comply. however, there would be some serious dissention if some guys just showed up w/demolition tools and trespassed.

Sounds like what I was thinking. My land, my rules. Which is one reason I live in the country and attend EVERY meeting of our County board that involves any changes to existing rules on personal issues. I don't gripe after a law is changed, I prefer to raise cain anytime they even think of passing a stupid new law. To qoute a couple of my favorites, both by Edmund Burke;

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little".


And before someone says you can't beat City Hall...... I did.

I agree with chitown too though... no city wants that kind of bad publicity.

 

[smilingcat]

keep your neighbors happy! Bribe them with some honest to goodness fresh homegrown veggies. They would have to be a real PITA J$#k to report you after you give them some fresh veggies and eggs. Grow extra tomatoes and give them to your neighbor.

If your front yard look pretty with flowers and roses and oh funny that, there are squash plants, bean plants in thare!! What are they going to say. Grow Nustertiums. flowers are edible. It's pretty! or how about rainbow colored chard. They are pretty too. and not to forget, lavender.

However, there are cities where the ordinance is for GRASS only. But for some reason people still have flower beds out front.

 

[omaeve]

this is why when we were shopping for our house.I said I do not want to live in town or PLANNED comunities.the real estate lady thought i was crazy..20 years later they are buying up all the old farms and building cookie cutter houses and we will soon have a hiway running though our front yard all in the name of improvement.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Update!

http://www.newson6.com/story/190237...her-edible-garden-down?Call=Email&Format=HTML

Seems what many are doing is helping!



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[olefarmersdaughter]

It saddens me to see the government use yet another tactic to control our food source. With this economy, we should be praising people for self sustainability. Raising food isn't the most eye pleasing process but when everyone else is complaining about grocery bill with this drought, we will be laughing all the way to our "fruit cellars and chicken coops".

 

[chickortreat]

i think they would have a hard time coming onto my property to destroy my place. if a court/authority said i was in violation & required me to amend my place, so be it. i would have to comply. however, there would be some serious dissention if some guys just showed up w/demolition tools and trespassed.

I agree wholeheartedly. If someone showed up in my yard and started cutting stuff down, they would hastily be distracted from the task. I don't know just how far I'd go in the process, but I can assure you they would stop what they were doing. There would likely be an ambulance needed before it was all over if they were very determined.