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Column: Saratoga town code impervious to common sense

Posted by: Maven on March 15, 2010 at 6:45 am

From the Silicon Valley Mercury News:

“To the casual observer, the 2,388-square-foot lawn behind Ron Hills’ sprawling Saratoga home looks like any other well-tended expanse of grass: lush, manicured, uniformly green.

But upon closer inspection, it’s maybe a bit too uniform. Unlike the other lawns on his 1.5-acre property, this one has not a brown patch or weed to be found, not a single blade of grass out of place.

Which means that either the grounds crew from Augusta National stops by regularly to mow, roll, edge and water it to perfection, or this grass is fake.

Oh yes, it’s fake. Hills actually prefers it that way. And that’s why he’s fighting Saratoga City Hall, which wants him to tear the stuff out.

“It looks like grass, it feels like grass and it percolates,” says the battling 73-year-old retired Lockheed engineer of his nylon, polypropylene and polyethylene turf. “This whole thing makes no sense.”

For the record, Saratoga does not outlaw artificial turf. But it does limit how much fake grass a homeowner can install. … “

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March 15, 2010 · Filed Under Bay Area

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