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I am 100% on Team Pollinator/Re-Wilding myself, however I believe that every community needs to have some plan for how to differentiate between an intentionally designed, well- managed pollinator garden or meadow landscape vs. owner negligence/abandonment of
care, which could constitute an attractive nuisance that neighbors would likely and rightly consider problematic. Private property (yard) rights are not 100% sacrosanct if there is a valid public interest in regulating potential negative impacts on abutters,
e.g., pests, fire, etc. Maybe neighbors just need to communicate better with one another during No-Mow May and Low-Mow Spring? My $.02, fwiw...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:57 PM Barbara Carboni <<a href="mailto:bcarboni@truro-ma.gov">bcarboni@truro-ma.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m with Jeff, on grounds of both property rights and pollinators.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">No retreat; no surrender; no forced mowing. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Are we talking about private property? A homeowner’s little patch of the earth? I can’t see any legitimate role for government here, especially if the only complaint is appearance.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I don't know what it would look like, nor of any precedents (as far as regulations go) but I suspect you could establish an approved ratio of mowed to un-mowed lawn, essentially requiring some degree of cues-to-care, like mowed borders
or pathways. Or perhaps waivers to the current regulations could be issued for households submitting a plan for some level of lawn conversion, to promote long-term pollinator support.
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