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Title: Couple sues after town bans front-yard gardens
Source: Yahoo
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/couple-s ... nt-yard-gardens-181405934.html
Published: Jun 8, 2016
Author: Curt Anderson
Post Date: 2016-06-09 11:11:07 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 13555
Comments: 66

MIAMI (AP) — For 17 years, a South Florida couple grew vegetables in a front-yard garden until a new town ordinance was passed limiting such gardens to backyards. Now, the couple is asking a judge to uproot the ban they claim violates their constitutional rights.

Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts say they dug up the garden in front of their Miami Shores home in August 2013 when town officials threatened to fine them $50 a day if they didn't. The threatened fine came a few months after the Miami Shores Village Council adopted a new zoning plan for the town of about 10,500 north of Miami.

The couple sued, and at a hearing Wednesday their attorney said the ban violates the Florida Constitution in several ways, including improper limits on their private property rights and violation of the equal protection clause by singling out vegetables over other plants.

"We're not saying you can do anything you want on your property," attorney Ari Bargil told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Monica Gordo. "We are simply saying you can grow vegetables on your property and that is protected by the Constitution."

Richard Sarafan, attorney for Miami Shores, said the new zoning rule was not irrational and treated all homeowners the same: their front yards should be covered with grass, sod or a "living ground cover" not further defined. It's no problem, he said, to have a vegetable garden in the backyard.

"There certainly is not fundamental right to grow vegetables in your front yard," Sarafan said. "Aesthetics and uniformity are legitimate government purposes. Not every property can lawfully be used for every purpose."

Carroll, who attended the hearing, said the couple sought to grow produce using organic practices, such as no use of pesticides. He said he had never gotten a complaint from a neighbor in all the years he tended the garden, which grew some 75 varieties of vegetables.

"It's important that we have the right to do something on our own property," Carroll said. "We're just trying to grow vegetables."

The couple is being represented by lawyers from the Arlington, Virginia-based Institute for Justice, which describes itself as a Libertarian nonprofit organization that focuses on issues such as private property rights, school choice and free speech.

Gordo did not immediately rule. Both sides said the judge could decide the matter without a trial, but either way the case is likely to be appealed, attorneys said.

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#57. To: Deckard (#0)

Ahh yes more rules drawn up by 5 people and nobody else gets to say/vote if they like the changes or not...

CZ82  posted on  2016-06-26   17:29:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: CZ82 (#57) (Edited)

Ahh yes more rules drawn up by 5 people and nobody else gets to say/vote if they like the changes or not...

Didn't "they get their say" when those 5 people were voted it... or doesn't that count?

Don't they get their say again when those same 5 people are up for reelection... or doesn't that count?

Let's not paint a perfectly well written article yella. lol

GrandIsland  posted on  2016-06-26   17:34:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: GrandIsland (#58)

Didn't "they get their say" when those 5 people were voted it... or doesn't that count?

Don't they get their say again when those same 5 people are up for reelection... or doesn't that count?

So it's cool with you if someone doesn't get the right to vote when they should be afforded one?

So what if your Union leadership didn't allow you to vote on the terms of your contracts before they submitted them, you saying you wouldn't have had a schitt fit?

CZ82  posted on  2016-06-26   18:40:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: CZ82 (#59) (Edited)

So what if your Union leadership didn't allow you to vote on the terms of your contracts before they submitted them, you saying you wouldn't have had a schitt fit?

I had to live with terms that were contracted prior to my employment. When I started there was several things that sucked. I knew it going in... and so did this homeowner. People today don't want to take responsibility for their actions. They bought the house with certain local ordinances or HOA rules. They are put in place for a reason. If they want a 10 foot tall corn field in their front yard they can buy a home out in the sticks.... or they can run for local office and try and change the rules... but we both know the others won't pass front lawn gardens. It's a common ordnance no-no. In fact, so common, this is always the same bullshit Puktard always posts... front lawn garden ordinance articles... and then he wants to make you think it's Nazi Germany.

GrandIsland  posted on  2016-06-26   20:26:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#61. To: GrandIsland (#60)

I had to live with terms that were contracted prior to my employment.

I've never seen a Union contract good for more than 5 years, then it has to be renegotiated.

CZ82  posted on  2016-06-26 20:38:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: GrandIsland (#60)

When I started there was several things that sucked. I knew it going in... and so did this homeowner.

Wrong as usual.

Did you even bother to read the article?

For 17 years, a South Florida couple grew vegetables in a front-yard garden until a new town ordinance was passed limiting such gardens to backyards. Now, the couple is asking a judge to uproot the ban they claim violates their constitutional rights.

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