OK, I admit I was having some fun with
my April 1 post. But Jane over at
Garden Design Online alerted us to a feud (in my own community, no less! what kind of investigative journalist am I, anyway?!) (oh, yeah, I'm not) that really does demonize the venerable redwood: Basically, as reported back in February in the
Los Angeles Times and more recently in the
New York Times, a half-dozen
existing redwoods are shading a neighbor's
new solar panels and therefore running afoul of
a 1978 state law.
Our local state senator,
Joe Simitian, has introduced a
bill to inject a little sanity into the issue; the bill would give existing trees legal precedence and priority over more-recently added solar panels.
Now if someone would only do something about those damn poppies.
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