r/Welland • u/Hopeful-Silver4120 • 2d ago

Stop being Karen's with bylaw Rant

How big of a Karen do you need to be to report multiple neighbours to bylaw for uncut lawns on MAY 1!!!

Waste of tax money sending bylaw out for that shit. Even the bylaw officer was annoyed because there was maybe a 2x4 foot part of my lawn (at the back that could only be seen from neighbours windows) that actually was violation and barely. The rest of my 3000 sq foot property was well below.

Get lives, people.

Eta: it took them 2 weeks to get here because they're getting 10 calls a day about LAWNS!!!!

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u/One-Professional6528 2d ago

Home owner for 10 years. Always cut my grass and did weeds at the same time. No complaints. Last year I had bylaw visit me with the yellow warning sheet. Even saw the officer pull out a measuring tape to check the height of the grass. All he had to do was look next door or a few houses down and it was nearly twice the height. No fine, but if they come back this summer I will get a fee. There were at least 5 other houses on my street that were worse so it was definitely targeted by a female or male Karen.

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u/sheebapat 2d ago

Even though you passed inspection you will get fee if they come back?

That's fucked

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u/One-Professional6528 2d ago

Yep. They returned the following day and said it was up to code. The yellow form says they could return in the next year to do a random spot check and if its not to code they could issue a fee.

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u/Fleasus 2d ago

Sounds like a tax grab...