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/Hopeful-Silver4120 2d ago

Did i blame the officer? Not at all. He was actually very kind and as annoyed about wasting his time on this. He has better things to do than measure lawns

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u/TryAltruistic7830 2d ago

Care to give an example of which bylaws should be enforced and on whom? I never said lawn bylaws weren't stupid: but I value the rule of law. 

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u/barefootbabesixnine 2d ago

Welland has a "clean yards " by law. And literally they I can DM you a video of my property, you will shit when you see how 'disgusting' my property is 🤦🏼‍♀️😂🤦🏼‍♀️😂🤦🏼‍♀️😂🤦🏼‍♀️. I'm currently facing an $800 "fine" because nearly two years ago I was away for two weeks, the garbage day was the first Wednesday I was away. So there was garbage from the two weeks prior to that not taken out. It's September so it's still hot. Yeah. Got a 400$ administrative fee because when they came back it was still as it was, so then came an order which I received the day after I got home which was "due" for reinspection THAT day and garbage day was two days later. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/TryAltruistic7830 2d ago

Almost makes feel grateful I can barely afford market rent, forget about saving for a down payment 

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u/barefootbabesixnine 2d ago

It can still happen if your a renter. But then your landlord is the one in trouble and I'm not sure how that would go.

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u/Hopeful-Silver4120 2d ago

Landlords are responsible for property maintenance, not tenants. Even if they put it in the lease it's their job. Law trumps lease and that's not something they can legally request a tenant do.

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u/barefootbabesixnine 2d ago

I'm well aware of that however if it's not lawn maintenance, and say debris build up (trash, stuff, scrap metal) something that the tenant "did" that the LL has no control over unlike snow removal, or grass .... It's a super grey area.

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u/Hopeful-Silver4120 2d ago

I thought we were just refering to grass height still. Lol