{"id":964,"date":"2018-01-12T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/01\/12\/property-rights-trend-local-ordinance-prohibits-plants-higher-than-10-inches-what\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T22:03:00","slug":"property-rights-trend-local-ordinance-prohibits-plants-higher-than-10-inches-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/property-rights-trend-local-ordinance-prohibits-plants-higher-than-10-inches-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Rights TREND. Local Ordinance: Prohibits Plants Higher than 10 inches. What?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> New London, CT home to the Kelo v. City of New London of U.S. Supreme Court fame<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ordinance:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.new-london.ct.us\/filestorage\/7495\/7518\/9725\/NEW_LONDON_PROPERTY_MAINTENANCE_CODE..pdf\">Section 302.4 of the New London Property Maintenance Code<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What garden items are prohibited by Section 302.4?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;all grasses, annual plants and vegetation,&#8221; that are more than 10 inches high.<\/li>\n<li>except for trees, shrubs, and &#8220;cultivated flowers and gardens&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The offending yard:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Has a &#8220;maintained&#8221; and &#8220;contained&#8221; bamboo garden for more than 30 years, longer than the ordinance has been in existence<\/p>\n<p><strong>The penalty:<\/strong>\u00a0$13,500 in fees and civil penalties with talk of blight statutes being triggered<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/new-london-connecticut-prosecutes-local\">Reason |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/new-london-connecticut-prosecutes-local\" style=\"border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);\">New London, Connecticut, Prosecutes Local Artist for Bamboo It Deems a Blight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> New London, CT home to the Kelo v. City of New London of U.S. Supreme Court fame<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ordinance:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.new-london.ct.us\/filestorage\/7495\/7518\/9725\/NEW_LONDON_PROPERTY_MAINTENANCE_CODE..pdf\">Section 302.4 of the New London Property Maintenance Code<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What garden items are prohibited by Section 302.4?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;all grasses, annual plants and vegetation,&#8221; that are more than 10 inches high.<\/li>\n<li>except for trees, shrubs, and &#8220;cultivated flowers and gardens&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The offending yard:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Has a &#8220;maintained&#8221; and &#8220;contained&#8221; bamboo garden for more than 30 years, longer than the ordinance has been in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,14,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-blight","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}