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Resident asks council to clarify nuisance code to protect pollinator gardens and native landscaping
Summary
Virginia Hooper told the council she and her husband received repeated public-nuisance notices for a pollinator garden and other yard items and asked the city to clarify maintenance language so native and water-wise plantings are not penalized.
Virginia Hooper, speaking during the Feb. 19 Tooele City Council public-comment period, said she and her husband have received multiple nuisance notices since Christmas for a pollinator garden and other yard items and asked the council to revise code language to allow native and water-wise landscaping.
Hooper said the garden at the former Bevan and England farmhouse on 700 North and 200 East is supported by state and university programs — she listed DNR, UDF, USDA, Utah State and SUU — is used as an open…
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