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[yendi]

Oak Park, MI Planning and Technology director Kevin Rulkowski is a complete and utter douchebag.

I'm not inherently opposed to zoning laws (they often actually accomplish a public good), but this is less a matter of a stupid law than of an asshole willfully being an asshole and misapplying the law.

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[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

There's a Cause2 page with a petition to help rub this in Rulkowski's nose, just to let him know we're all watching:

http://www.care2.com/causes/mother-facing-jail-for-growing-veggies.html

[magenta-girl.livejournal.com]

Wow, and suitable means common?

[sarabellum.livejournal.com]

Oak Park has more things to worry about than someone growing food for her own family or 'hood. JEEBUS.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

He's quoted as saying "If you look at the dictionary, suitable means common".

Really? If I look in the dictionary, it says that suitable means "acceptable or right for someone or something" - nothing there about how common it is.

It sounds like he's on a power trip and won't back down.

[losgunna.livejournal.com]

In a lot of neighborhoods, if your yard doesn't face the right way, you don't have enough sun for a veggie garden in the back yard. Does that mean that you are required to do without one?

(I've been keeping up with this a bit, since it's about 2 towns over. Seriously, everybody is rooting for her, and I suspect the judge, unless he's on the mayor's payroll, will tell him to stick it)