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Resident asks commission to consider more flexible watering days, citing garden care and mildew concerns
Summary
Gary Cohen, a long-time South Pasadena resident, urged the commission during public comment to discuss modifying the city's restricted watering days to better accommodate individual circumstances, citing gardener schedules, mildew risk and difficulty hauling heavy garden waste.
Gary Cohen, identified in the meeting as an in-person public commenter, asked the Natural Resources and Environmental Commission on Feb. 25 to place the city's restricted watering-day schedule on a future agenda for discussion.
Cohen said current rules allow sprinkler irrigation on Tuesdays and Fridays before 9 a.m., and he described a household schedule and gardener availability that make those times impractical.…
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