22-08-2003, 06:03 AM
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Seattle's Street Margins
c (TOM KAN PA) wrote in
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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.
This year, our city council (Lincoln, Nebraska) finally made it legal to
grow anything other than lawn grasses and 'approved' trees in the curb
strip. Not that the law had previously kept people from planting flowers,
shrubs, vegetables, etc. in the space anyway, but there was always the
threat that someone who was po'd at you would report you and you'd get 'the
letter'. The only caveat is that plants need to be kept under 30 inches, to
allow clear views. Now, if they would let us use rock and gravel there...
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