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My sense is that most people do not have enough time and or energy to try to change laws. The status quo is absurd. If there was some weird law on the books tha
by yboris 3y ago
My sense is that most people do not have enough time and or energy to try to change laws. The status quo is absurd. If there was some weird law on the books that made all these lawn-only requirements go away in 2024, how many people do you think would actively try to reinstate the lawn-only laws?
I clearly hang around different people, since just about everyone I talk to thinks its bonkers that we mandate lawn-only, and fine people for doing otherwise.
- sokoloff 3y agoIn communities that have a gate, my guess is that those requirements would mostly be re-instated within the year. In communities that have a sign with a community name on it [but no gate], I'd guess that around half of them would come back within a year.
- yboris 3y agoThank you for sharing specifics. I'm guessing fewer than 50% of the houses in USA are of the two types you mention - most homeowners, I think, live in regular suburban sprawl under township rules. I suspect most of those communities would not fight to demand lawns. Except maybe in cases where (as perhaps often happens in politics), one individual with free time gets to impose their preferences on others (by being the loudest and perhaps the only voice in local government meetings). We need UBI (Universal Basic Income) and a 4DWW (Four Day Work Week) so that people would have more free time to contribute to the communities where they live (and not be burnt out from day-to-day work).