tsk - In answer to your question yesterday about the city's rule on my parkway landscaping. . . It was put in about 1980; the ordinance was written/passed about 75/76. What the new rule didn't specify was when the rule apply to; i.e. when the rule was in effect, wasn't mentioned that I purchased under 1971 ordinances. It wasn't applicable post purchase. They than in 1976 modified the ordinance to "property purchased from 1976 forward" that would be valid.
Two caveats, however, modified that. In case of a drainage problem, if the work disturbed existing sewers/landscaping/or my design, the city would not be liable for restoring except as they deemed necessary. The other exception/condition was related to my mailbox. One winter, while our street was being cleared of a deep snow. They, the city, being caretakers of the city streets, used a city backhoe to plow, lift back, and toss the mailbox.
They took responsibility and repaired/fixed it. And then for the following winter they instituted a limit on their liability. I believe it is now $200 for all in the city work. The mailbox has been "taken out, taken down" down now 4 times. No, others have accidentally damaged it (postal delivery truck, young girl backing down street in a hissy fit, and last time pickup truck doing a 3-point turnaround. BTW last year, was $860. There is no reasonable reason that it should/can be over-looked. It stands the typical 5 feet, all black brick with white cement and a white cap. And it has front and back opaque white panels with lighting from the inside at night. Very hard to not spot. Twice the "battery of the box" was done at night!
Phyl I, too, found that hanging chandelier/planter nicely done and ingenious.
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