21-08-2003, 07:02 PM
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Seattle's Street Margins
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c (TOM KAN PA) wrote:
Paghat wrote in an earlier post, Today the city of Seattle put out an
announcement for everyone to water their street margins' trees
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Street margin? Is this the strip between the curb and the sidewalk? In our
locale (Pittsburgh, Pa. metropolitan area) we call this the Devil Strip. It
doesn't belong to you, but your responsible for it's upkeep and maintenance.
Cool term Devil Strip, never heard that before. Know the origin of the term?
I'm turning the street margin into elaborate sun-gardens. The city or
county could if they want tear it all out for any reason they had, so it's
always a risk, but it's perfectly legal to plant all over it. The city has
in the past even provided people with free saplings, but I wanted my own
tree choices. There's an official list of permissible trees, quite a long
list fortunately, what is missing from the list in theory is stuff that
would too easily lift sidewalks or spread wider than they get tall or drop
hideously gushy messes on the roads. The list looked random to me though.
I remember being dissapointed Perotia was not permitted.
-paghat the ratgirl
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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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