LAist: Citations for Watering Your Sidewalk

skunks11

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:07:05 -0800

People at 16717 Sweetaire Ave., Lake Los Angeles, CA 93535 are too lazy to sweet driveway and walkways and hose every day. Right now they have a water slide going for their kids. It is 1:00 p.m. and 105 degrees! He just washed 2 vehicles and 3 RV's. People at 16705 Sweetaire Ave. has their sprinkling system on auto water EVERY DAY for ONE HOUR from 11:30 am to 12:30 am!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. I'm turning them in, but will anyone do anything about it. They laugh at the laws and regulations!!

jennvecc

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:40:31 -0800

great photo

Lindsay William-Ross

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:30 -0800

you can totes narc on your water-wasting neighbor via a DWP program called Drought Busters we talked about it recently on LAist here: http://laist.com/2008/05/03/dont_be_a_water.php

ltlblugrl

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:59:57 -0800

What about watering the streets? Can we report that too?

panasonicyouth

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:48:45 -0800

About fucking time.

SteveG

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:39:05 -0800

Finally... When I moved to L.A. from Europe I was wondering all the sidewalks would be wet in the morning, when it hadn't rained for days... When I realized that people are just don't care and are not maintaining their sprinklers which wastes water in an area (in the fucking desert...)where there's a natural shortage of water. It needs gas prices exceeding 4 dollars to make people realize that fuel efficient cars are necessary (still not caring about the environment, but your wallet) and so it needs high fines (or higher prices for water) to make people stop wasting water. It's like dealing with little children: You have to punish them to learn something.

Zach Behrens

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:34:08 -0800

Kristinster, it's illegal to wash a sidewalk, so I doubt it's the city doing it, however I'll look more into this, that plus Manny's question too. Keep 'em coming.

Manny

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:25:28 -0800

I have a neighbor who has his front lawn on an auto-sprinkler system that waters it 6 times in a day at 15 mins per cycle. I would love to see if this "enforcement" actually does something. I wonder though, what are the limits?

kristinester

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:14:13 -0800

Does the city plan on taking it's own advice? Hollywood Blvd is pressure washed every night. Is it really necessary to do this? Or do they just enjoy watching drunk girls fall on the slippery concrete? The concrete watering seems to commence right around the time the bars close.