OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to this story, 'Hypocrisy': Resident told by city to cut her lawn or face penalties', published Aug. 18.
I totally agree with Stacie Theis.
Enforcing by-law 834 against her is a regressive move. Her re-wilding of her lawn is the right thing to do.
Lawns are are an outmoded aesthetic which require destructive practices to maintain — gas mowers, insecticides — and do not support any of the biodiversity needed for survival.
Also, who would prefer a sterile uninteresting patch of green to a buzzing varied field of native plants?
Orillia must cease and desist. As Stacie Theis said: there is no health or safety issue here no garbage — just life.
And now Ramara Township is following Orillia with similar calls by councillors to cut lawns for the sake of keeping up “property values." These are moves in the wrong direction if we want an environment that sustains life — ours!
Barbara Sternberg
Ramara
